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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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Hamish
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Mar 20, 2012
Using FWSMs id recommend placing your vlans behind the bigip so that you just have two vlans one your fwsm... Then if you want to firewall your vlans from each other use network virtual servers to push inter vlan traffic via the firewall instead of direct.

 

 

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