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Sriram_Kannan_1's avatar
Sriram_Kannan_1
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Jun 08, 2015

Viprion Network Failover - Multicast

Hi im currently setting up two Viprion chassis at different datacenter with multiple VCMP in HA mode According to the standard each VCMP is advised to have one unicast HA Vlan and one multicast or unicast mesh address

 

By default multicast address communication is over Management physical port

 

So can multicast address be setup on separate physical port rather than management port ?

 

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  • JG's avatar
    JG
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    Jun 09, 2015

    From what I can see from "Device Management" -> "Devices" -> "hostname" -> Device Connectivity: You can specify a different interface from the default "eht0".

     

  • amolari's avatar
    amolari
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    Jun 09, 2015

    F5 recommends to use the mgmt interface for that:

     

    F5 recommends that you configure network failover to communicate over the management network, in addition to a TMM network. Configuring network failover in this way creates a reliable failover communication channel while the system initializes, and before the TMM network connectivity channels are fully established. To do this you must configure a failover unicast address and a failover multicast address for each device group member.

     

    Ref: sol14135: Defining network resources for BIG-IP high-availability features (11.x)