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farid95
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Jul 24, 2022

F5 BIG IP and wmware workstation

I just started the F5 course. My lab seems to me to be architected like that of the TP. I run it from a VMware Workstation 16. Everything is OK, except the possibility to attack the "external" paw 10...
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buulam
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Jul 26, 2022

Hi farid95 have you tried setting vmnet13 to Bridged and testing?

farid95's avatar
farid95
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Jul 27, 2022

I set vmnet 13 to bridged but I still have the same problem

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    buulam
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    Jul 27, 2022

    I think I'm a bit confused. Just to clarify: Your local VMware Workstation host can ping into the self IP and VIPs of the 10.10.10.0/24 network?

    It's just PC_Client within the lab that you've setup that can't reach the VIPs hosted on the BIG-IP within the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet? Can it reach the self IP?

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      farid95
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      Jul 27, 2022

      my physical machine on which I installed vmware workstation cannot join ip self and VS

      on the other hand the management address is reachable 

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        buulam
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        Jul 27, 2022

        Ok. I think it may be that your host doesn't have an IP on the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet? VMware Workstation would have installed some VMnet adapters on your local machine and you can assign it an IP address within that subnet so it can communicate via that