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Scot_85536
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Aug 29, 2015

BigIP VE Lab

I have a VE Lab license that I'm trying to install as my internet firewall to be able to play around with it. I have DHCP at home, not a static IP. I know BigIP can do DHCP for the management addre...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 29, 2015

Quite frankly, it doesn't make sense to use DHCP for traffic management. If you used DHCP to assign an IP address to a virtual server, you'd need some elaborate DNS scheme to ever be able to access it.

 

And so just to clarify your question, is this for outbound access or inbound? Do you sit behind an Internet router/modem that would give you an internal LAN that supports static IPs?