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Chen_Tat_93126
Feb 12, 2011Nimbostratus
Creating multiple VLANs
Hi guys! I'm new to f5 and recently, my customers have some requirements to migrate from a switch load balancer to f5 LTM.
However, the issue is that the switch load balancer have about 20 Vlans configured on it, and to my understanding, BIP-IP do not have the ability to create that much of VLANs.
The number of VLANs is that can be created is restricted to the number of ethernet ports I have on BIG-IP.
For example, if I have a LTM 1600 which has only 4 ethernet ports, the maximum VLAN that I can configure is only up to 4.
Am I correct about this??
- HamishCirrocumulusF5's do 802.1Q VLAN tagging no problem at all.
- Chen_Tat_93126NimbostratusI'm sorry, here is the attachment image for my previous post.
- HamishCirrocumulusClose. The tagged VLAN's on the F5 need to be created on the F5's trunk (aggregated interface)... Then you can just create selfip's on each of the F5 VLANs you've just created.
- Chen_Tat_93126NimbostratusI see. Now I get it. Creation of vlans and vlan interfaces via self ip is to be done on the f5 trunk interface. then, we'll trunk over to the cisco switch and create vlan access ports on it. Trunking is via dot1q protocol.
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