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ilya_f_132450
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Aug 27, 2013

Error “01020020:3: The text string cannot be converted to an IP address.” when trying to create Virtual Server with C#.

Hello! I am very new to F5 API, actually first I day I tring it. I cannot create Virtual Server. I found few posts related to the same error, but they are connected either to PowerShell or other lang...
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Joe_Pruitt
Aug 28, 2013

I'm thinking that the error may have come from using a wildcard in the wildmasks array. I believe you have to use dot notation for the wildmask (in your case 255.255.255.255 for a value). Most likely the code is trying to do a internal call to inet_addr("*") returning that error.

 

Here's a sample I wrote a while back in PowerShell (similar to the C code you'd be writing) that does a VirtualServer create.

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.PsProvisionVEForLocalDev.ashx

 

Hope this helps...

 

-Joe