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ganesh_31408
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Mar 24, 2019

LTM in HA pair running OSPF to be a DR and BDR, though it will have all your public VIP which must be advertised to your external routers.

In the present configuration, F5's are connected with my firewalls which are further connected to my internet routers. As of now I can see that the OSPF neighbor-ship has been established with the fi...
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Amy003_314955
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Why would you like your F5 device to do what a router/L3 switch can do ? Configuring F5 to route the traffic for OSPF would require it to have different tables on it, but F5 has not been specifically configured for it. It can participate as an ospf node but should be the least preferred one to take routing decision.

 

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ganesh_31408
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Mar 25, 2019

Yeah, the design is actually like this, the KB article does mention that it should not be configured ad DR/BDR but there are no official reasons mentioned. Also, please comment in my recently posted question if you have idea.