Port Aggregation

With one trunk, you can aggregate a maximum of eight links. For optimal performance, you should aggregate links in powers of two. Thus, you ideally aggregate two, four, or eight links.9 Working with Trunks

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_trunks.html

 

 

and

 

 

sol7174: The maximum number of user configurable trunks for the BIG-IP system

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/100/sol7174.html

Note that I've seen some switches using LACP limit the number of active links in the channel to 4...

 

 

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thanks guys for the information...

Hi everyone,

 

I have a query about the Link aggregation related to the switch, what is the configuration that should be done on the switch side for the link aggregation. If I make the switch ports as Bridge port and on the LTM side it is a trunk with no LACP is it working as a aggregation port or no?????? is there any document you guys can share over this.

 

 

Regards,

If I make the switch ports as Bridge port and on the LTM side it is a trunk with no LACP is it working as a aggregation port or no?????? cisco etherchannel mode on and f5 trunk without lacp should work as well.

 

 

is there any document you guys can share over this. i do not see any official document; anyway, i have seen some discussion popping up here sometime.

The switch I have is a 3COM core switch, also I want to know if LACP is enabled on the LTM platform no matter its working on the peer switch or not will it create any conflict or problem?????

 

 

Is there a way to assign a native VLAN on the VLAN's we create on F5, I didnt see any such configuration area where I can define this.

 

 

Can you please help me with this...

 

 

Regards,

The switch I have is a 3COM core switch, also I want to know if LACP is enabled on the LTM platform no matter its working on the peer switch or not will it create any conflict or problem????? i never tested but i think it should work if you manually enable link aggregation on 3com side (like cisco etherchannel mode on). anyway, why do you need lacp on f5 side if switch does not support it??

Is there a way to assign a native VLAN on the VLAN's we create on F5, I didnt see any such configuration area where I can define this. can you try this?

[root@B3900-R71-S16:Active] config  b vlan vlan10 list
vlan vlan10 {
   tag 10
   interfaces tagged 1.8
}

[root@B3900-R71-S16:Active] config  b vlan vlan20 list
vlan vlan20 {
   tag 20
   interfaces tagged 1.8
}

[root@B3900-R71-S16:Active] config  b vlan vlan1 list
vlan vlan1 {
   tag 1
   interfaces 1.8
}

Hello Team,

 

I am also a new to f5, I am using two vlan one for external and one for internal network, and my two link connected to core switch with the trunk port.

 

now how traffic will forward, not able to understand.

 

Please help us.

 

-Arun