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draco_184361
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Feb 07, 2017

In f5 i2800, we can see the hardwired failover port .

In f5 i2800, we can see the hardwired failover port and we have receieved only 4 sfp for two boxes. We will be doing a 2 arm mode deployment so we will be using 2 for ext and int vlan from each box.d...
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FMA_199355
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Feb 07, 2017

Hi, Serial cable failover seems to be something pretty legacy nowdays. It is just a "voltage heartbeat". You don't need a separate dedicated "ethernet" cable for network failover, your sync/mirror vlans can be trunked inside your physical "arms".