Forum Discussion
Derek_21893
Apr 09, 2010Nimbostratus
Hm, I would think that the ARP entry for the failover communication IP addresses would always be in the ARP cache, since there is quite a bit of communication which happens on that link.
Using the floating IP addresses will not work 100% of the time either, in the following cases:
- there are no floating self-ip addresses on the LTM because it is not the default gateway for hosts
- there are identical self-ip addresses defined on multiple pairs because you are using anycast (having the same VIP IP in multiple data centers)
I could definitely ssh to the admin interface and run bigpipe commands to get the configuration, then store the configuration for parsing later, so there are ways around this. I just thought it would be cleaner to do everything in iControl.