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eesun_276598
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Dec 06, 2017

VLAN ID and tag

Hi Anyone can make it clear the concept with relation between VLAN ID and its tag in f5. In Cisco switch, vlan id is vlan number, such as vlan 10, vlan 20, vlan 30 etc. And tag is used when two switc...
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PK_Bhatia
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Dec 11, 2017

It is due to 802.1Q tagging also called Dot1q tagging. It is required to tag the VLANs in hardware f5 but not in VE. Try searching for 802.1q.

 

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PK_Bhatia
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Dec 18, 2017

Because you are already assigning VLAN to the network interface you assign to VE f5. I think VMWare workstation support it if you assign interface with VLAN 4096 (cisco), not sure about other virtualization vendors.