Full mesh HA to FW with disrect cabling

Hi Piotr,

Piotr wrote: I assume that when two ports (1.1, 1.2) are assigned to the same VLAN BIG-IP will behave like a L2 switch

I dont think so. You'll will get just two independent HOST-interfaces (either tagged or untagged). But I'm very unsure if LTMs would behave like a full featured Switch...

Note: Personaly I would never use cross-over HOST-to-HOST cabelings. I always tend to use full-featured switches to agregate the different HOST-Ports. Depending on the switch capabilities, you may use a ONE:ONE assignment, so that the primary SW and F5 are getting connected to the primary Switch (and vice versa for the secondaries) or use fault tolerant LACP channels for the F5s and SWs that gettings spanned across the primary and secondary switches.(aka. vPC configurations)

Update: Seems so that LTMs would be able to operate as an switch. Hmm... but I highly doubt that I ever would use this feature^^ ;-)

Cheers, Kai