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StefanBraittiNT
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Jan 23, 2026High Availability and Load Balancing for Single-Node CE with multiple ISP uplinks
I'm designing a deployment for an F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) Customer Edge (CE) on-premise and would like some guidance on the best practices for link redundancy. Scenario: Deployment: Single-no...
- Jan 27, 2026
You can also deploy 3 standalone CE for each ISP and group them in a virtual site.
For 3 CE cluster max 2 RE connections will be available as this suggests 2 ISP can be utlized in a cluster deployment.
See my article for ideas:
If you want just single CE that will prioritize best link to be hones this seems like a job for SD-WAN siting infrount the CE system not F5 CE.
StefanBraittiNT
Altostratus
Jan 26, 2026Thanks zamroni777. That will work but if the link flaps the ipsec tunnel will flap as well. That's not stable at all. Also it will not load balance the links.
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