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NimbostratusLTM vs Link Controller
Hi all,
customer need to balancing outbound traffic between two ISPs; furthermore, in the event of a fault, it should provide for an automatic failover to the remaining active link.
No inbound LB is required.
Based on these requirements, the idea was to use only the LTM module but I would like to know what are the main differences in functionality compared to LC.
For istance, if I'm not wrong, is not possible to configure link object on LTM; what is the alternative that allow the LTM to monitor a destination on the other side of the link? Transparent?
Another istance, LTM can do rate shaping or Topology-based routing like LC?
So, is there a comparative table of the two products and, definitively, LTM could replace LC?
Thank you in advance for any support.
James_ThomsonEmployee
F5 doesn't sell a Link Controller product anymore
For your functionality, you would just have a virtual server of type performance layer 4, like this: 0.0.0.0:0 listening for all traffic, then have the 2 next hop routers in a pool.
You can create a monitor to monitor anything beyond the next hop, then assign it as a transparent monitor.
LTM supports Bandwidth Control