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Which high availability feature allows two different BIG-IP devices to use the MAC address for the same server IP?

The correct answer is D. MAC masquerade. MAC masquerade is the F5 BIG-IP high availability feature that assigns a shared floating MAC address to both devices so failover occurs without requiring ARP cache updates on the network.

Section 3: Load Balancing and High Availability Basics

Question

Which high availability feature allows two different BIG-IP devices to use the MAC address for the same server IP?

Options

  • AHSRP virtual MAC address
  • BDevice group
  • CSync- failover
  • DMAC masquerade

How the community answered

(17 responses)
  • A
    6% (1)
  • D
    94% (16)

Why each option

MAC masquerade is the F5 BIG-IP high availability feature that assigns a shared floating MAC address to both devices so failover occurs without requiring ARP cache updates on the network.

AHSRP virtual MAC address

HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) is a Cisco router redundancy protocol and is not a native BIG-IP feature.

BDevice group

A device group is an administrative construct for grouping BIG-IP devices but does not itself control MAC address behavior during failover.

CSync- failover

Sync-failover is a type of BIG-IP device group that synchronizes configuration and enables failover, but it does not define the shared MAC address behavior that prevents ARP re-resolution.

DMAC masqueradeCorrect

MAC masquerade assigns a single floating MAC address to both the active and standby BIG-IP devices, so when failover occurs the MAC address remains unchanged and switches do not need to flush and re-learn the new MAC. This eliminates traffic interruptions caused by ARP re-resolution during a failover event.

Concept tested: F5 BIG-IP MAC masquerade high availability failover

Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-1-0/big-ip-tmos-implementations/using-mac-masquerade.html

Topics

#MAC masquerade#high availability#failover#BIG-IP HA

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