LTM: Interface Failsafe
Nathan McMahon and Kirk Bauer bring us another slick solution for a couple of common requirements in high performance environments: To fail over immediately when a single physical network connection ...
Published Mar 05, 2008
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NimbostratusI'm pretty sure this works on at least 9.3.0+ and probably earlier code. You have to have a member of the pool otherwise it will not config sync as you found out. I recommend using an IP that does not exist. I'm guessing that you have a Default Node Monitor defined (under Local Traffic -> Nodes) and that is causing the problem. After you define the random node in the pool that doesn't exist, find that node listed under Local Traffic -> Nodes and specify that there should not be any node monitor for it.
Hope that helps!