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mali77_57143
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Feb 28, 2013

F5 LTM creating VLANs etc

I have a VLAN SVI (VLAN5) on our cores. I created another VLAN (VLAN6) in the database which will be the virtual servers for VLAN5.   So basically users can hit the IP from VLAN6 which then will ...
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Mar 01, 2013
I was using the Private partition though does that matter?i believe so. 

root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) show sys version

Sys::Version
Main Package
  Product  BIG-IP
  Version  11.2.0
  Build    2446.0
  Edition  Final
  Date     Tue May 29 22:02:24 PDT 2012

root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create auth partition pr1
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create net route-domain /pr1/rd1 id 1
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) modify auth partition pr1 default-route-domain 1
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create net vlan /pr1/vlan1 interfaces add { 1.1 { tagged }}
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create net self /pr1/1.1.1.1/24 vlan /pr1/vlan1
01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), Cannot get device index for vlan1 in rd1 - ioctl failed: No such device - net/validation/routing.cpp, line 353.

root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create net self /pr1/1.1.1.1%1/24 vlan /pr1/vlan1
01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), Cannot get device index for vlan1 in rd1 - ioctl failed: No such device - net/validation/routing.cpp, line 353.

 workaround (cr. David Karakas)

root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) modify net route-domain /pr1/rd1 vlans delete { /pr1/vlan1 }
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) modify net route-domain /pr1/rd1 vlans add { /pr1/vlan1 }
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) create net self /pr1/1.1.1.1/24 vlan /pr1/vlan1
root@(B3600-R67-S41)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list net self /pr1/1.1.1.1/24
net self /pr1/1.1.1.1/24 {
    address 1.1.1.1%1/24
    partition pr1
    traffic-group traffic-group-local-only
    vlan /pr1/vlan1
}