Signaling Traffic Groups MAC Masquerade Addresses on every vlans
Hi,
I've yet to find an efficient way to do this.
I'm running on an active-active config (multiple traffic-groups) with multiple vlans, selfs and virtual servers listening on the box. In the particular case of a traffic flow hitting a vip of the viprion, the device will choose to respond using the mac-address of the vlan instead of the mac masquerade address of the traffic-group. This causes problems due to the lack of virtual mac advertisement. When the entry for the virtual mac in the mac address table on the connected switch/router expires, I am faced with all traffic from the router being broadcasted to all devices on the vlan.
Why isn't the virtual MAC address (mac masquerade) regularly advertised on the vlan in the same way that HSRP does with its multicasted hello packets ? In this way, all mac address tables of all the switches in all the connected vlans would have knowledge of the path to the viprion.