Allan,
Years ago big-ip had no trunking support. A year or two ago,
we added support for vlan tags in a rudimentary way (only
on "internal" interfaces).
As of 4.0, which shipped last spring, we have full vlan
trunking support for all network traffic.
Regards,
Rick Masters
F5
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Liska [mailto:allanIZZATallan.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:24 PM
To: lb-lIZZATvegan.net
Subject: Re: [load balancing] BigIP's and trunking
Hello Tim,
The last time we looked at the Big IPs they did not support 802.1q,
which is one of the reasons we opted not to deploy them. I know there
are some good F5 guys on this list, so they may correct me, but I am
pretty sure they didn't support it (we have the same problem, we use
CAT 6509s in the core of our data center, and because of our design we
needed to be able to support trunking).
Hope this helps.
allan
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 9:42:19 PM, you wrote:
TM> I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good, bad, or
TM> otherwise) with using trunking under BigIP 4.x, in particular into a Cisco
TM> 6500 series switch. In reading the 4.x documentation, there is no mention
TM> of 802.1q trunk modes like there was in 3.x, so I'm not sure how I would
TM> be able to make my Cisco treat my trunked interfaces as a group. In 4.x
TM> it seems like outgoing packets from the BigIP would be
TM> "load-balanced" between the interfaces, but I don't see how this is
TM> possible for incoming packets, without something like 802.1q. Granted,
TM> if nothing else trunks will give me interface failover, but I'm looking
TM> more for bandwidth aggregation. Any info would be appreciated.
TM> -Tim
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