Big-IP VE with a single interface, for Navisite
I'm trying to install a Big-IP LTM VE in the Navisite cloud. They only give us one interface. I've seen a couple of other posts where people got a single interface working for a physical server by configuring with the console cable, then assigning the one interface to Internal and using that from then on. Obviously this isn't an option for a virtual machine....
Anyone have any suggestions? It seems to be a chicken-and-egg problem.
I tried creating an alias for eth0 (eth0:0) and I was able to assign an IP to it using ifconfig, but the Big-IP GUI doesn't see it as an interface. (It doesn't see it at all.)
So here's another question: how does the Big-IP detect and maintain interfaces? I see the VLANs in /config but not the interfaces themselves (i.e. the MAC addresses). The Big-IP seems to ignore what's in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. (It's a Redhat VM.)