Eric_Radhik_123
Feb 26, 2013Nimbostratus
Using the F5 as a L2 pass-thru or as a L3?
Curious to hear the opinions of using the F5 as a Layer 2 pass thru instead of using it as a dedicated Layer 3 device. Networks and LTMs should be fast enough to pass through the traffic without any problem but what are the caveats?
Im in a scenario where we may change our network architecture to everything (meaning all vlans) behind an ASA and only route the VS subnet to the LTMs. This will give the ability for a cleaner N-Tier architecture design. We are currently having the problem of "too many hands in the pot" syndrome and all of them are not using the vlan allow access list and this is causing too many security zones to speak to each other when they are in separate zones.