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SURAJ2's avatar
SURAJ2
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Feb 29, 2020

unable to ping Webservers OVA from F5 LTM

I am following Keith Barker video of F5 and implement the LAB setup in fro practicing and i am unable to ping the webservers (Red-11-WEB 10.2.0.11 , Green -10.2.0.22 and Blue 10.3.0.33) from F5. F5 h...
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consul_2019's avatar
consul_2019
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Mar 01, 2020

This is going to seem annoying to you as I know you say you have checked this on F5 VM...

 

But you need to double check that the MAC address of your VMNET network in VMWARE matches the MAC associated to your VLAN. And verify the same for the back-end server VM. Most of the time this IS the only issue. I've never had to play around too much after that to get things working.

 

If the back-end server and F5 self-ip are in same VLAN then no need to mess with routing configs on back-end. Obvs, you need a default route on F5, but the rest mentioned here, is not really required.