ARP not learning properly while cluster failover

jeraldsimon84 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:17:28 GMT

I have a cisco6500 serious switch that one port (portfast enabled) hold a server .This server has sort of a Cluster configured for high availability .

During primary server failure the failover server acquires the cluster IP address (ie virtual IP).

Cluster IP 192.168.10.1

Primary server =192.168.10.2 Failover server =192.168.10.3

when failover happen , i am unable to learn arp. need to reboot the server for arp . After reboot i am getting different mac address(secondary) with cluster IP.

query:-normal clustering how mac address generating(means logicaly any mac address will be created or LAN card mac address)?

how can check the server is generating gratuitous arp ?

how can avoid this issue ?

Note:-

Cisco ARP time out :4 hrs

Cisco Mac- address time out : 300 sec

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ARP not learning properly while cluster failover