Can iquery operate on multiple interfaces?

It seems it can:

# ss -l | grep iquery
0      5                           :::f5-iquery                      :::*       
0      5                           :::f5-iquery                      :::*       
0      5                           :::f5-iquery                      :::*       

and you might want to verify this using this article:

K13690: Troubleshooting BIG-IP DNS synchronization and iQuery connections (11.x - 15.x)

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JG,

I think in this case 'netstat -ant | grep 4353 | grep EST' would have been more illustrative.

I am familiar with K13690. In fact, it was the command 'tmsh show /gtm server all' that prompted to me to consider running 'gtm_add <remote gtm additional address>'. But I could find no documentation to support multiple uses of the gtm_add command against the same target with multiple addresses. My original question could have been phrased more precisely. Of course, a GTM can run iquery over multiple interfaces to connect to multiple GTMs or LTMs over different network paths. However, that is not the problem I am trying to solve. The real issue is can a GTM communicate with iquery to multiple interfaces on another GTM or LTM? To illustrate:

GTMA: 10.10.10.1 & 172.16.10.1

GTMB: 10.10.20.1 & 17.16.20.1

They both exchange iquery over their 10.10.x.x addresses. Can they concurrently exchange iquery over their 172.16.x.x interfaces?

TIA,

JB

From what I have found out, only one IP address is allowed for each system, even though the service is available on multiple addresses.

From "man gtm_add":

"      gtm_add is an interactive script that is used to integrate a new BIG-IP GTM system into a sync group that is already defined on one or more remote BIG-IP GTM systems.

      The script wipes out the current configuration of the GTM system on which it is run and replaces it with configuration of the remote GTM systems in the specified sync

      group.

"

So there is only a "replace" but no "add" functionality in the facility.

Also if you look at the command /usr/local/bin/gtm_add itself, which is a perl script, Lines 113-176 (BIG-IP 13.1.1) show that only one address will be taken. if you are on a different version of BIG-IP, look for the starting line:

while (@ARGV > 0) {

in the script.

Thank you for the clarification.

JB