VS responding to ICMP when all pool members are down.

Krys,

This is controlled by the virtual address, not the virtual server and its state, so your symptoms are to be expected.

Two articles to bring to your attention, in case you haven't seen them. The first one is how to selectively control responses to pings, and the second has an interesting workaround from Hoolio on how to automate this (caveat, would need testing first). See if they help.

N

Controlling Responses to ICMP Echo Requests: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-5-1/48.print.html

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/f5-vs-always-responding-to-ping

Thanks Nathan. This solution works only if the health check will failed for all pool members. If I try to disable all pool members the VS is still responding to ICMP. Looks like this is related to 'Bug 414380'. Any ETA to fix this?

Unfortunately I need ICMP enable, We have Cisco GSS checking our VIPs (VS). Based on the result of the health check GSS will give a correct VS address (active).