How do I configure an F5 LTM VE Lab on my Laptop and drive traffic to it to generate logs?

Hi!

I am trying to configure selfips and vlan's and not sure what to use. So far:
VLANS: external 4093 1.2 Common internal 4094 1.3 Common

This should be fine.

You only have two vmnet interfaces according to your ifconfig (maybe you missed some in the screen shot?):

VMNET1 192.168.77.1 
VMNET8 192.168.96.1

And your LTM has two self ips (I assume you don't want the 10.0.0.100):

192.168.239.2
192.168.41.2

What you want to do is to make sure that your mac has an interface on the same network as the external and the internal vlan (which means that you need to change the ip of your interfaces on your Mac, or your LTM. You will also need to place the LTMs interfaces on the correct networks.

Example config:

Mac config

VMNET1 192.168.239.1 Gives the MAC an interface and ip on the external VLAN
VMNET8 192.168.41.1  Gives the MAC an interface and ip on the internal VLAN

LTM Config:

192.168.239.2 Configure the external VLAN interface in vmware to belong to VMNET1
192.168.41.2  Configure the internal VLAN interface in vmware to belong to VMNET8

If you are unable to determine which interface is which on the machine and in VMware you can compare the Mac addresses in the LTM and in the VMWare interfaces in Fusion.

• LTM Mac addresses are available under Network -> Interfaces
• Fusion Mac addresses should be available under Virtual Machine -> Network Adapter -> Network adapter settings (go through each of them and note tha mac address).

Hope that makes sense.

/Patrik