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Joad
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Oct 02, 2019

LTM 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 i...
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James_Thomson
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Oct 02, 2019

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

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-12-1-0/7.html