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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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rmarsf_152525
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May 30, 2014

i will add before i leave for the weekend. I did manage to find a configuration that consistently assigned the management interface successfully to eth0. Again, I do not know exactly why or if this is the only configuration, but in any case:

I have 3 private networks. (with 2, it failed inconsistently) go figure. eg, in Vagrant file: bigip_config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "172.16.1.55" bigip_config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.10.10.16" bigip_config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.61.6"

and I make sure the nic type using the virtual box provider:

     bigip_config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype1", "Am79C973"]
     end

any my vagrant up is consistently booting with mgmt on eth0.

go figure!