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Nimbostratus

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

Admin

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?

farid95

Nimbostratus

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

buulam
Admin
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
- farid95
  Nimbostratus
  Jul 27, 2022
  precisely vmware created the network 10.10.10.0/24 on my machine
  Carte Ethernet VMware Network Adapter VMnet13 :
  Suffixe DNS propre à la connexion. . . :
  Adresse IPv6 de liaison locale. . . . .: fe80::bce3:aace:8d40:8ea3%31
  Adresse IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 10.10.10.1
  Masque de sous-réseau. . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
  Passerelle par défaut. . . . . . . . . :
  - buulam
    Admin
    Jul 27, 2022
    I see... have you tried the other network binding methods, bridge, NAT in addition to host-only? And your PC_Client is onto attached to VMnet 13, can it reach the self IP's and VS's?