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Chen_Tat_93126
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusCreating 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 ...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusF5's do 802.1Q VLAN tagging no problem at all.
On your switch (Assuming it's a cisco), setup a trunked interface (Either physical or etherchannel. I recommend a channel and use active LACP). In cisco world a channel is what a PC person would call teaming or link aggregation. Trunking in cisco world is 802.1Q VLAN tagging.
On your F5 setup a trunk (Which is LACP based link aggregation). Then create tagged VLAN's on that trunk. You can have quite a few (In fact Im not even sure what the actual limit is. Both devices will do extended VLAN ID's. On the cisco you'll have to enable it. On the F5 it will do extended ID's by default.
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