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Alfonso_3549's avatar
Alfonso_3549
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Mar 10, 2009

vserver ALWAYS replies to ping

Hi,     We're new to F5 and came across this "problem" just now:     As soon as you configure a vserver in he F5, it's IP address responds to ping no matter what: when the prima...
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JRahm
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Aug 24, 2011
For TCP, it should respond with a reset if all the pool members are down (unless you have a last chance redirect configured, in which case the session should handshake, the redirect occur, and then the close). With ICMP, it should always respond, because ICMP is attached to the IP address, whereas a virtual is an IP address and a port. Many virtuals could (and often do) exist on a single IP address, so you wouldn't want ICMP services to fail for the other virtual servers.