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marsmann_58298
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Sep 30, 2008

Advantages and Disadvantages to trunk LTMs

Hi all,     First time poster. Relatively new to F5's. Did some searching but found nothing conclusive so far.     What are the advantages and/or disadvantages with using trunk...
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JRahm
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Oct 01, 2008
You can dedicate a layer3 network to the front & back sides of the LTM, isolating it from all your traffic unless you specifically desire to send traffic that way. In a few of our environments we hang the LTM's in isolated layer3 networks off the core switches so no distro-distro hopping is necessary, but any direct client->server traffic that is necessary is not reliant on the LTM in any way.