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Leam_53941
Mar 07, 2011Nimbostratus
Trunk ports for bandwidth and failover?
Is it possible to trunk 2 ports from a 6400 to a Cisco switch so that both wires act as a single wire? This would give us increased bandwidth while both wires worked and would allow redundancy if one wire failed. I know we can trunk on the Cisco switch, but not sure about the BigIP.
Thanks!
Leam
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- Chris_MillerAltostratusYou can configure trunking and even use LACP.
- HamishCirrocumulusBe aware that ion the cisco it's called a port-channel. On cisco, a trunk is an interface that handles tagged (802.1q) VLAN's
interface port-channel201 description port-channel to an F5 switchport switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport native vlan 999 switchport trunk allowed vlan switchport mode trunk
interface gi3/36 description F5 interface 1 switchport switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport native vlan 999 switchport trunk allowed vlan switchport mode trunk channel-protocol lacp channel-group 201 mode active
- brianokelly_119NimbostratusBelow is example config from the bigip_base.conf for an LACP trunk (V10.2):
trunk F5_TRUNK { lacp enable interfaces { 3.1 3.2 } } stp instance 0 { trunks { F5_TRUNK { external path cost 20000 internal path cost 20000 } } vlans { F5_VLAN } } vlan F5_VLAN { tag 10 trunks tagged F5_TRUNK }
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