Lightboard Lessons: F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Lab Configuration

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I walk through my personal lab configuration on my Mac, utilizing VMware Fusion to deploy the F5 BIG-IP Lab Virtual Edition along with a few Ubuntu LAMP servers and a shopping cart VM for ASM testing. Fusion is but one of many hypervisor options for running a local lab-in-a-box that can be used.

What does your personal lab look like? Shoot me a picture and I’ll post updates to this article with a listing of other alternatives.

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Published Sep 14, 2016
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    Bart_Van_Bos
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    Jan 21, 2020

    Is this method still working/supported on BIGIP-15.1.0-0.0.31.LTM_1SLOT?

    After changing the password back to default (by doing an intermediate step to another password, as the first login requires a mandatory password change), packer seems to fail to connect with Big-IP over ssh. I can login with the credentials in the VirtualBox UI console though.

    2020/01/20 05:24:53 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/01/20 05:24:53 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/01/20 05:24:53 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:59384->127.0.0.1:4169: read: connection reset by peer
2020/01/20 05:25:00 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:4169...
2020/01/20 05:25:00 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/01/20 05:25:00 packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH

    If I look into the Virtualbox UI, I see that mcpd and devmgmtd are in a crashloop.

    logger[22111] Re-starting mcpd
logger[22818] Re-starting devmgmtd
logger[22332] Re-starting mcpd
...

    The output of dmesg shows the tmm interface flapping.

    IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): tmm: link becomes ready
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP: tmm: link is not ready
traps: mcpd[17749] trap divide error ip:56c01093 sp:ffe15:0 in libmcpdcommon.so[5678f000+67c000]
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): tmm: link becomes ready
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP: tmm: link is not ready
traps: mcpd[18214] trap divide error ip:56c01093 sp:ffe15:0 in libmcpdcommon.so[5678f000+67c000]
...