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rmarsf_152525
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May 22, 2014

How does Bigip F5 LTM select which VM Adapter it assigns to the management interface

I want my management interface to use adapter 0 of my VM. It has an affinity to adapter 1 not matter what I seem to do. I have tried editing base-mac in bigip_base.conf. No matter what I do it uses...
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Brad_146558
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May 22, 2014

So we also virtualized our BIG-IPs, and we've run into issues with the order of the NICs. Typically when you first setup a BIG-IP, the software assumes the first NIC will be the mgmt NIC, which is typically eth0. Now where this gets tricky is when you go back and try to add NICs later on. There is a bug where the NICs can get completely reordered and that throws everything off. We've run into it before and I've got a few commands that can help with that if this is the case.

 

My first question would be are you setting up this BIG-IP for the first time or trying to add NICs after the fact?