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Daren_Matthews's avatar
Daren_Matthews
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Jan 10, 2014

Why did my F5 lose it's default route??

We experienced a strange outage yesterday. From a client running Outlook we could not reach (ping) the Exchange server (one of two pool members) - the Self IP on the F5 reported the destination as b...
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boneyard
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Jan 10, 2014

cant imagine anything else then a configuration change. in principle it is always possible some config corruption occurred but that chance is very small.

 

if the logging is correct you could check /var/log/audit

 

i also dont quite your scenario, if the selfIP reports a destination unreachable then the client - bigip communication is fine. is the default route configured towards the exchange servers?