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zchriss
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May 16, 2019

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 - ...
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Ford_Prefect
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Feb 12, 2020

Danny,

 

Do I understand correctly that

  • 1.1
  • 1.2
  • 1.3
  • mgmt

are virtual interfaces, that have appropriate vNICs or phisical cooper/optic interfaces depending on platform - virtual or phisical and

  • eth0
  • tmm
  • tmm_bp
  • http-tunnel
  • socks-tunnel
  • portal_profile - that appears in my case as well, when I run ip link show

are internal F5 interfaces?

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Daniel_Epperson
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Feb 13, 2020

Hello Ford. Yes, these internal interfaces are used by the Linux kernel and can be safely ignored. You may be asked to check these during the course of troubleshooting but otherwise they should be left alone.