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cmard_195831
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLTM configuration
Hello,
I have been requested to consider the following possibility for the F5.
Consider two ethernet interfaces on an F5. BOTH interfaces belong to the SAME subnet. One interface is connected to...
giltjrNimbostratus
NimbostratusThe F5 can act as a L2 switch, but depending on the model this could cause high CPU utilization as on some models the L2 traffic is handled by TMM.
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/600/sol14686
I don't know if you can get the traffic to pass through ASM rules though. However, even to begin to get this working, the Apache servers must be connected to one switch and the "farm of hosts" to a separate switch, and the ONLY common connection can be the F5.
