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Fawad_29089
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Mar 19, 2012

F5 LTM setup with Cisco FWSMs

Hi,     I am going to setup F5 LTMs in our environment for server load balancing. I have a question about the placement of F5 LTMs. We want to use our existing Data Centre Gateway Switch to con...
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Josh_41258
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Mar 19, 2012
There are several ways to accomplish this. We have a similar setup, although we utilize SNAT. Therefore, the gateways of the servers are -not- the BIG-IP, they are the firewall/switch/SVI interfaces for that particular VLAN that the servers reside on. The BIG-IPs are directly connected to our core infrastructure which handles all Layer 3 - one trunk for the "external" side of the BIG-IP (this is where our VIPs reside), and one trunk carrying multiple VLANs for the "internal" side of the BIG-IP (this is where our servers reside).

 

 

Josh