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Ossar_178453
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Dec 15, 2015

Active-active and RHI (BGP) failover

Hello, I successfully managed to set up the functionality I am looking for but I am lacking the speedy failover that is required. Two F5 LTMs (VE edition), in an active-active configuration, i.e...
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fire12_313356
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Mar 28, 2017

Hello there is a protocol in the F5 LTM that's named BFD, In general, BFD detects connectivity changes more rapidly than the endpoints' standard Hello mechanisms.

 

i think that will help you

 

best regards

 

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    ingard
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    Jul 05, 2017

    Did you get to the bottom of this? We're in the process of switching to an active/active bgp setup and was wondering if we should go with a separate link net for each ltm<->router pair or stick them on the same subnet. Does it even matter if you have a floating ip or not when bgp deals with the failover?