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Pawan_Goswami
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusF5 not support cable failover? or how can be configure
As mentioned in picture, If we connect F5 with two different switches using port 1.0 & 2.0. Both ports having same access vlan and they will be un-tagged with same vlan VLAN12. Now seems F5 not ...
Mike757
MVP
MVPOk, when you say "cable failover" in F5 it does not mean what you think it does. The "failover cable" has DB9 connectors and only legacy platforms use it. Recent models support only network failover. See https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K1426 for details.
[EDIT: Correction: newer systems also support "cable failover", but it's a special RJ45 cable. Anyway it does not affect what I'm saying next.]
For your scenario, I believe the way to go is with MSTP. See: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-tmos-routing-administration-14-1-0/spanning-tree-protocol.html
Look into your switch vendors' documentation on MSTP as well.
Mike