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Mujtaba_Baig_34
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Dec 24, 2017

Dynamic bandwidth management at layer 2 and High availibility

Hello,

 

Layer 2 deployment of BIG-IP i4000, bandwidth management and HA:

 

  1. We are going to deploy F5 as layer 2 device between our edge router and Core router to limit the bandwidth per IP, the question is how to configure bandwidth controller and apply that on interface to limit the bandwidth per IP for the traffic that goes through F5 and which license do we require?

     

  2. Also just to make sure for F5 to operate as layer 2 between two routers creating a VLAN and associating interface in that VLAN will be fine or there has to be done more ?

     

  3. How will HA will look like If we want to use F5 in context of bandwidth controller between two routers as transparent bridge as I described in questions 1 & 2 ?

     

Waiting for kind replies.

 

Thank you,

 

Mujtaba

 

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  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Dec 24, 2017

    it might be a weird question for a F5 forum, but why use a BIG-IP for this? while it seems possible, i wouldn't think of BIG-IP as the first choice when considering bandwidth shaping.

     

    then as a second question who is helping you with this if you are not sure about licenses yet? (while you seem sure about the platform ...) i would advice you to involve your F5 local sales or F5 partner and let them guide you, that's what they are there for.

     

    1) as for your questions, bandwidth shaping seems to be done on virtual servers, not interfaces.

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-3-0/8.html

     

    for layer 2 that would be a layer 2 virtual server

     

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10371011

     

    2) the article on the layer 2 virtual server mentions something about what else is needed at Recommendations

     

    3) can't find a good resource for layer 2 and high availability (this is one of the reasons why i wonder if it is smart to go this way, there aren't many layer 2 BIG-IP deployments, so knowledge is less, both in the community and with support) but i think the main question would be what do you expect of high availability?