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Dazzla_20011
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Nov 26, 2010

Help Major network outage involving F5 LTM

Hi,     I'm really hoping someone can help me. Last Friday we had a major problem which affected access to all our Core Systems. The initial problem was caused due to a bug within the Cisco Nexu...
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Hamish
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Dec 06, 2010
All very true... When configuring network failover I make it mandatory to have a NON core network path between the two boxes (And avoid 9.4 because it'll only use ONE path for network failover traffic. WIth 10.x you can configure multiple connections).

 

 

Non core network means at it's simplest an optical SFP in each F5 and a piece of dark-fibre. Or you can uses a pair of dedicated heartbeat switches with dark fibre between them etc.

 

 

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