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Tiaan_92076
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Apr 19, 2009

Link Redundancy on Cisco Switches

Hallo,     I need to connect a Big-IP device to two physical switches for redundancy. I don’t want the Big-IP to take part in the spanning tree, one of the reasons being the Cisco’s are us...
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Tiaan_92076
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Apr 20, 2009
Hallo,

 

 

We tested the following and it seems to be working correctly.

 

 

Spanning tree was disabled on the Big-IP. A trunk containing the two ports was created without LACP configured. VLANs was then created with the VLAN tag number configured on the trunk interface as tagged. Self IPs was added to the VLANs created above.

 

 

The Cisco ports was left as access ports with VLAN tagging.

 

 

Am I correct in saying the Big-IP will not be a bridge in the above configuration ?

 

 

Thanks

 

Tiaan