How to config BGP peering for F5 in HA-pair?
Hi I've setup F5 BGP peering with router and have problem due to we can't use floating IP as IP BGP neighbor address https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62454350 . So we need to use self IP as IP BGP neighbor address. Problem is It's make router can't decide which path is correct when they send response traffic to F5. F5 active unit or standby unit. Router can't know status on F5. I try to add prepend on BGP which is standby unit and it's fine. but when standby unit takeover . it's failed again. Is there a way to deploy BGP with F5 HA-pair? Thank youOutbound iRule / BGP routing
Hey sirs, I would like to ask a question about the order of precedence/execute of a connection that consumes a forwarding virtual server/routing table. Currently, we have a forwarding any:0 virtual server, which load balances internet outgoing traffic through a pool_default_gateway that has the IP of 3 routers from different ISP associated with it, including some irules that make the SNAT decision based on LAN-segment. We are planning to include the F5 pair in the BGP neighbors of each ASN ISP and receive the default route and advertise the Virtual Server public IP. Does anyone know if the F5 when reads the dynamic routing table obtained via BGP, the traffic that is handled by the virtual servers of forwarding any:0, including those that are manipulated via iRule can show any kind of intermittence? thanks in advance
LTM BGP announce virtual server IP from active and standby vCMP guest.
Hi we are trying to setup an active/standby routed setup. For this, we are using BGP. F5-1-----F5-2 | | SW-1-----SW-2 BGP is configured between F5-1 and SW-1, and F5-2 and SW-2. connection between SW-1 and SW-2 is l2. Everything is configured, however, the virtual server IP addresses are only announced by the active Guest. config on both devices: ip prefix-list VS-pl seq 10 permit /31 ge 32 ! route-map export_to_bgp_v4 permit 10 match ip address prefix-list VS-pl ! router bgp redistribute kernel redistribute static neighbor route-map export_to_bgp_v4 out on the standby, the statement is: neighbor route-map export_to_bgp_v4 out I would like both vCMP guests to announce the subnet, so I can use local pref to define the preferred path in my routing table. (eg: if the active is announcing the subnet, use this. otherwise, there is an immediate alternative available; the standby) when I do a sh ip bgp neighbors advertised-routes on the active Guest (F5-1), I see the F5 announcing the subnet. When I issue the same command on the standby (F5-2), I don't see the subnet of my virtual servers. This is due to the fact that my standby (F5-2), does not have this in it's kernel routing table. Am I doing something wrong here? The reason why I ask is that I don't want 4 bgp sessions, just the square and now, when a failover happens, I have downtime, as the standby has to announce the virtual server IPs to it's neigbour. Thanks in advance for any help! With kind regards Sybren
BGP - Conditional announcement of directly connected networks
Hi, Is there any functionality to conditionally announce directly connected networks similarly to how you can use a route-map to conditionally announce a default route or how you can use RHI to conditionally announce kernel-routes? My goal is to only announce connected routes on the active unit, but using redistribute connected announces the connected networks on all devices, while redistribute connected route-map conditionalRoutemap doesn't work (ie. the networks are not announced anywhere).
Active-active and RHI (BGP) failover
Hello, I successfully managed to set up the functionality I am looking for but I am lacking the speedy failover that is required. Two F5 LTMs (VE edition), in an active-active configuration, i.e. two traffic groups. One primary on each LTM. Each LTM is connected with BGP to separate routers. I am running eBGP LTM<->router and iBGP router<->router. Each LTM communicates with a its respective router over a link net (LTM endpoint as self IP, no floating self IPs due to L3 separation of the two LTMs) Each LTM is situated on separate L3 segments and all VIPs are announced successfully via RHI. Traffic groups fail over based on a gateway failsafe that icmp monitors an interface on its router. It all works beautifully in every failure scenario I have tested so far but, failover takes around 10-20 seconds. I have tweaked lots of parameters in the LTMs but none of them improve the situation. Is there a way to come down to less than a five second failover time? R1-----R2 | | F5 F5
iControl or script to get dynamic route from F5
Hi I currently use F5 with dynamic routing (Learn BGP dynamic route from neighbor router). Problem is sometimes router can't send me route and all dynamic route is gone. (we got downtimes and there is no alert to us) Do we have iControl script or any script command to get route list from F5 ? I only know tmsh command to get dynamic route. So there will be alert to us when routing have a problem. Thank youCreating F5 VIP with on IP range not part of interface Subnet
Hi Team, I'm working on scenario where we need application require automatic failover between datacenters. We have F5 LTM in each DC if F5 or application fails we need traffic to automatically failover to secondary Data Centre. GTM is not an option here due to various issues. I'm thinking of using BGP route injection to advertise VIP from each DC and to prefer primary DC. so my question is can we create a VIP using a separate IP pool other than F5 interface IP network? reason is F5 VIP created on both DCs will have same IP addresses. Anyone can see an issue with this approach?Disable specific interface via iControl?
Hi Can we disable specific interface via iControl? ie when F5 failover. (status change from Active to standby , ) I want monitoring tool to send icontrol command to disable some interface on F5 standby unit. we have problem with BGP peering which router still peer with standby unit so I need to disable that Interface. Kridsana