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Stewart_76633
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Jan 09, 2013

LTM trunk to seperate switches?

As per this document, http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_trunks.html, I have a fair understanding of what Trunks are all about. For res...
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Stewart_76633
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Jan 09, 2013
Seems like you were right from the start nitass. I created the interfaces on the same VLAN to two different switches. At first I had switch ports getting disabled because the F5 was participating in spanning tree. After disabling BPDUguard on the switch STP negotiated the forwarding paths. Ive tested shutting a switch port (to simulate a switch failure) and I lose a couple of pings while the network re-converges then It's good again. Happy with this...

 

 

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nolipineda
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Apr 09, 2014
Hi Stewart, Did you try fail-back? If yes, what was the recovery time? Would you mind sharing your STP thresholds please? Thanks!