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Gordon_Bailey-M
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Jun 09, 2014

Active/Standby F5 routing between datacenters

Hi,   I'm thinking of consolidating our current F5 DMZ footprint (we have 5 DMZs with an active/standby pair at each site) into 2: One Active Viprion running at one site connected via L2 to the St...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Jun 09, 2014

As long as you are using MAC Masquerade with your traffic groups then things should failover without significant traffic loss - no need for the ARM. On failover the MAC for each TG |(and the objects in it) simply moves from one site to another through standard L2 mechanisms/learning.