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Oreoluwa
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Nov 16, 2019

DESTINATION HOST UNREACHABLE

Hi Guys, I am sooooo frustrated right now. Everytime i try to ping my F5 virtual edition lab default gateway for the external interface, it keeps giving me destination host unreachable. When i als...
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  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Simon_Blakely
    Nov 17, 2019

    Check that the interface ordering is correct - sometimes VMWare will reorder the interfaces.

     

    Ensure that the interface is up.

     

    Check the IP address of the Virtual Network endpoint. Make sure it is not an APIPA address. That is a Windows bug that has impacted me several times.

     

    You could be hitting

     K74921042: BIG-IP VE may fail to process traffic after upgrading the VMware ESXi 6.7 host to Update 2

    This issue started with ESXi 6.7 Update 2, but has impacted some other VMware releases as well. You may need to update the BigIP to version 13.1.3.

     

     

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Simon_Blakely
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Nov 17, 2019

What version of BigIP are you setting up?

What is the hypervisor?

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    Oreoluwa
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    Nov 17, 2019

    Okay. My BigIP version is 13.1.1-0.0.4

    And my Hypervisor is Vmware workstation 15.5.1