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May 20, 2022

NSX-T and F5 HA using BGP

Hi All, I am working on a lab to get F5 LTM VE high availability pair working with NSX-T T0 router using BGP The routing domain all works find, I am able to establish the BGP neighborship and I see...
  • Frederick_Witte's avatar
    May 25, 2022

    Hello,

    This configuration is entirely supported and used at many service provider accounts, including my own.

    For the BGP peers you will want to peer with the self-IP, not with the floating self-IP.  This will indeed allow for two active peers and they will receive routes from both BIP-IP's.  The way you control traffic is indeed with the floating self-IP, you just need to set the outbound (or inbound on the routers) next-hop as the floating self-IP using a quick route-map.  Here is a quick example config:

    router bgp xxxx
    bgp log-neighbor-changes
    bgp graceful-restart restart-time 120
    neighbor x.x.x.x remote-as xxxxx
    neighbor x.x.x.x description xxxxx
    neighbor x.x.x.x route-map blue-to-bgp out

    route-map blue-to-bgp permit 100
    set metric 100
    set ip next-hop x.x.x.x primary <--Floating Self-IP