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amsh_4376
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Sep 10, 2012

Trunk down and interfaces unitialized

I have a BIG-IP VE 11.2 running on VMWARE ESXi Vsphere 5. In BIG-IP, i can see three interfaces (1.1,1.2 and 1.3). 1.3 configured for HA and trunk (1.1+1.2) for traffic (one armed mode).   When...
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cybershoe
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Apr 15, 2015

Trunking multiple VLANs is supported, you just assign multiple VLANs as "tagged" on the same interface. Just make sure your hypervisor isn't stripping VLAN tags and you're good to go.

 

In F5 parlance, a "trunk" refers to a LAG or port channel, which is where LACP comes in to play (and is not supported in VE). This difference in terminology has confused more than one user coming from the Cisco world :)