NSX-T and F5 HA using BGP
- 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 outroute-map blue-to-bgp permit 100
set metric 100
set ip next-hop x.x.x.x primary <--Floating Self-IP