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Gabriel_V_13146
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Oct 24, 2013

Basic network configuration with BIGIP VE

Hello all, one thing is to physically plug wires into the network plugs, however having possibility to run BIGIP as a Virtual Edition is great. I'm trying to run it in the AWS VPC network and havin...
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  • Egor_33493's avatar
    Egor_33493
    Nov 06, 2013

    Hi. Good to hear that you resolved your problems.

     

    Yes, you can't just configure an BIG-IP with IP address from a valid amazon subnet and start using it. Any IP address you use should be configured on amazon side via Manage Private IP Addresses. What about BIG-IP floating self-ips or failover? It works for me and afaik it's officially supported.

     

    src/dest check is a good point. Personally I prefer to use source address translation set to Auto Map for a virtual server if possible.

     

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Gabriel_V_13146
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Nov 06, 2013

Ok, now it works. Apparently BIGIP cannot enforce it's settings to the AWS network interfaces, we have to live with what we get from the infrastructure. So what helped:

 

  • disable the src/dest check on the network interfaces (The LTM translates only destination by default, n'est pas?)
  • NIC secondary IP addresses (used as a virtual server address) removed from the SelfIP list
  • stop / start the BIGIP instance

I am not aware I did anything different.

 

Carpe diem Gabriel