F5 LAB issue - Not able to browse to 10.1.0.145 as stated in cbt nuggets

F5 Lab issue. I have seen this asked before many times but none of the answers work for me. I must be missing something here. I have got to the part were I enter the 10.1.0.145 address in the virtual machine, then go to my internet explorer to https to the vm. This does not work. I must be missing something as I have installed this on 2 machines today with the same result.

Are you able to ping the 10.1.0.145 address from your PC?

I used VMware player but I had a similar issue. In VirtualBox make sure that VMnet1 Subnet settings is set to the 10.1.0.0 Subnet.

On my PC the VMnet1 Adapter has a static ip of 10.1.0.1 subnet mask 255.255.255.0

Well I was wondering if the virtual adaptor should have an ip on it when viewing it rom the network settings on the windows 10 machine. I did try putting 10.1.0.1 at one point as a test to see if that helped. But it did not and I have not been able to ping the 10.1.0.145 address at any point on either PC that the lab is installed on. There must be something stupid I have missed. It cannot be this difficult to setup a LAB on a VM.

I just tried the following on my PC with VirtualBox.

Enable the VirtualBox Host-Only Network Adapter.

Give the Adapter the IP Address of 10.1.0.1 with a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0

On the BIG-IP in the config screen add a default route with an IP Address of 10.1.0.1

You should now be able to ping and browse the 10.1.0.145 address.

Thanks that seems to have done the trick.

VMnet1 Subnet adapter i have mentioned 10.1.0.1 , Now i can able to ping the IP , but i couln’t browser the 10.1.0.145. Kindly suggest me further .