LTM on VMware
I just cant get it to work. I was determined not to give up, but after nearly a week, I have. I have never used VMware before, so I am 100% sure it is me doing something wrong.
The laptop I have have one ethernet and and one wireless port. None are in use.
I want to be able to get to the F5 management port 192.168.0.20 (this works) and create another /24 for the SelfIP and VIPs( this does not work), but nothing physical as I am testing from the machine the VM is on.
I can get the F5 management port to work, buy bridging the 1st VM Network Adaprtor and giving the F5 Management address in the same subnet as my Lappy address.
I am trying to create another L3 connection to the F5, using a different subnet, 192.168.40.40 for VIPs
To do this I have got a 2nd interface on my VM that is connected to the F5 1.1 interface. I know this, as if I shut one end the other goes down. So I have a virtual L1 connection between the F5 LTM and the VM machine.
This is where I get stuck, I can use Bridged, NAT, Host-Only, Custom. I have seleted Custom with the Name of VMnet8(NAT)
My windows routing table looks like:
192.168.40.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.40.1 276
192.168.40.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.40.1 276
My Laptop VM host machine interface looks like this :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c4be:d4b2:8e11:5d98%22
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.40.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
My SelfIP 192.168.40.2 In a VLAN called Vtest which is tagged in VLAN 8, (as I though the VMnet8) might mean it was tagged with VLAN 8
Nothing Pings, from the F5 i cant get to my Laptop and from the Laptop I cant ping the SelfIPs
Can anybody help me with what is wrong, it is not L1 as this is OK, I am sure it is to do with the VM network Connection Type, but I have tryed them all, and none of them can make my L3 connection work.
Kind Regards
Graham Mattingley