BIG-IP VE network interfaces and network adapters

Hi,

I'm deploying the virtual edition of BIG-IP and I am having trouble reconciling the link between the virtual network adapters (in VMWare or Hyper-V) and the interfaces on BIG-IP.

Example - VMWare has four virtual adapters on vSwitchs: 0 is on the management network, 1 is on the external network, 2 is on the internal network, and 3 is on a network just for HA (for two Big-IPs).

This seems to be reflected in TMOS:

[root@bigip1:Active:In Sync] config # tmsh lsit net interface
net interface 1.1 {
    if-index 48
    mac-address 00:50:56:af:48:08
    media-active 10000T-FD
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max auto
}
net interface 1.2 {
    if-index 64
    mac-address 00:50:56:af:6c:2a
    media-active 10000T-FD
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max auto
}
net interface 1.3 {
    if-index 80
    mac-address 00:50:56:af:46:b0
    media-active 10000T-FD
    media-fixed 10000T-FD
    media-max auto
}
net interface mgmt {
    if-index 32
    mac-address 00:50:56:af:39:b9
    media-active 100TX-FD
}

Ethmap also shows we have four network adapters:

[root@bigip1:Active:In Sync] config # cat /etc/ethmap
eth0 00_50_56_af_39_b9
eth1 00_50_56_af_48_08
eth2 00_50_56_af_6c_2a
eth3 00_50_56_af_46_b0

But what are all these devices listed in the Linux Kernel itself?

[root@bigip1:Active:In Sync] config # ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master mgmt state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:af:39:b9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: mgmt: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:af:39:b9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: tmm: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9282 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/ether 00:98:76:54:32:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: HA: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/ether 00:50:56:af:46:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
9: external: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/ether 00:50:56:af:6c:2a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
10: internal: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/ether 00:50:56:af:48:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
11: tmm_bp: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1640 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1
    link/ether 02:01:23:45:00:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Testing on Hyper-V I also have extra interfaces named "mgmt", "tmm", "tmm_bp", "http-tunnel" and "socks-tunnel". This is from a clean install of BIG-IP VE.

How do I make sure that the configured interface for internal traffic is using the correct virtual network adapter in VMWare?

What are all these extra interfaces?

I hope my question isn't too open-ended.

Cheers,

Chris