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M_2's avatar
M_2
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Feb 26, 2017

What will be the ARP/GARP for wildcard or Network virtual server ?

Hi all, trying to understand how the ARP/GARP will work for the wildcard or network virtual servers w.r.t the MAC addresses ?   Can any one explain.   SAM
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Niels_van_Sluis
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Feb 26, 2017

According to this post, network listeners in both LTM and GTM by default do not participate in ARP. For wildcard/network listeners to work and not participate in ARP, the traffic must be routing through the BigIP for the BigIP to process it.