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James_Price_485
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Jul 10, 2014

What happens to traffic sent to an ltm standby unit self ip address?

I need to test weather traffic will flow though and ltm unit that is in standby right now. It is version 10.2.4 1500 appliance Ive got a server behind the unit with its gateway point to the standby u...
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JRahm
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Jul 10, 2014

a local self IP will respond in accordance with the allowed ports and protocols. A floating self IP will not respond on a standby because the active unit effectively "owns" that IP address and will arp on all requests for it.

 

when you say you could not reach outside networks, was that in the immediacy of a failover, or did that behavior persist for more than a few minutes?