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Gorf_33479
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Feb 23, 2011

LTM1600 - How to alter the default 'external' VLAN tag

Greetings all, for quite some time now I have used the default 'external' VLAN that came setup on our 1600's for the external VIPs. We are making some infrastructure changes, and the problem is that ...
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Gorf_33479
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Feb 23, 2011
HYeah I tried that as well. When I try to load the new config I get:

[gorf@lb2:Standby] config  vi bigip_base.conf
[gorf@lb2:Standby] config  b load
Reading configuration from /defaults/config_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_sys.conf.
Reading configuration from /usr/bin/monitors/builtins/base_monitors.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/profile_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/daemon.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_local.conf.
Loading the configuration ...
BIGpipe VLAN operation error:
   01070290:3: Unsupported change to the vlan tag for vlan external.  Please delete and recreate instead.

Hence the question about work arounds.