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Milan_61890
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Oct 14, 2013

2 LACP paths to 2 switches without spanning-tree

Is the following setup possible?: A BIG-IP appliance should be redundantly connected to two switches without using spanning-tree. Each switch should be connected to the BIG-IP by two aggregated inter...
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juancardona
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Dec 07, 2021

I have a similar scenario. A cluster with 2 F5 nodes, each node has a LACP 2 x 10G and each fiber connects to a different Cisco Nexus switch. Last week, we connected an inline IPS between one of the F5 appliance and the two switches. After some minutes, we started seeing applications(some being served by this F5 cluster and some others not) and vpn's not responding or doing so intermittently. The network got stable after disconnecting the IPS appliance. Any idea what could be causing this behavior?