ACE Module not supporting

[syakshanulla]

Hi,

We have migrated CSM to ACE Module recentlym all the applications are working fine. But one of our real server , Hosting team did NIC Teaming (Active-Active) which was working fine but not with ACE Module (Briding Mode).

My assumtion is because of ACE in Bridge mode all the non-loadbalancing traffic has to go through ACE Module, So we couldnt access the server directly. If ACE is in One-armed mode i think it should be fine.

But with bridge mode do we have any option to make it working.

[Surya ARBY]

there is a restriction regarding NIC teaming in active/active mode.

The ACE uses an hardcoded mac-to-IP mapping with ARP. As with active active nic teaming you'll have 2 different mac addresses, the one which is not present in the ARP cache of the ACE is considered as a security violation.

[syakshanulla]

Hi Surya,

can you explain me little bit more, Why it was worked in CSm and not with ACE. And is this specific to ACE bridge mode?

[Surya ARBY]

It's not specific to bridge mode, it's specific to the ACE.

Try by configuring Active / standby teaming and the flushing the ARP cache of the ACE, it should worK.

[syakshanulla]

Could you explain how it was working on CSM?