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meena_60183
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Apr 18, 2008

Configuring F5 using Trunking

Hi All,     I just opened a brand new F5 LTM box. I am ready to configure them with our Cisco switches.     I am planning to do create a trunk using 4 ports for the front end and 4 ports o...
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meena_60183
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Apr 18, 2008
Thank you. I think I did it correctly.

 

 

How about the spanning tree configuration? What is the difference between STP being disabled or pass through? Does disabled mean stop sending/receiving BPDUs? Pass through is probably let the BPDUs go through the device.

 

 

I want the upstream swithces to take care of the loop detection/prevention and I do not want the F5s to send/receive BPDUs. In this case, do I disable it or set it as a "pass through"?

 

 

thanks,