Posted By What Lies Beneath on 10/19/2012 02:05 PM
1) Active/active mode is no longer recommended by F5, I wouldn't recommend it myself either. Is there a specific reason you want active/active?
2) Yes, it's just like SPAN.
3) You can use any TMM interface (or VLAN using a TMM interface) or (the mgmt interfaces (I think)) for network failover.
Relevant options should be under System > High Availability but I'm assuming you're not seeing that. System > Platform should have a High Availability option you can set to Redundant Pair which might make it appear.
System > License should let you know if your license is valid.
It would help if you could tell us what model the devices are and what software version please.
1- Any specific reason Active/Active mode is not recommended I wanted to do that for load balancing too, but it is not a big deal.
2- So I guess port mirroring is needed if we want to capture packets as I would on a switch?
3- Ok so I took 1.4 from both devices and connected the cross over cable. I will use that for the failover however I still do not see any option's that I mentioned I have screen shots attached