On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ryan Whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm having an issue bridging 2 virtual switches in VMwares ESXi. I've made a > post on the VMware forums describing the issue > (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1507261#1507261). > I have searched the internet and found a post > (http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100108.174704.efbb18cc.ja.html) by > someone having the exact same issue- it looks like that post was on this list? > In short, I have a Linux VM in ESXi with 2 vNICs- one in each of 2 different > vSwitches. A client (in my case a windows machine) on the second vSwitch > can't get the MAC address of the default gateway on the first vSwitch. > Sniffing the traffic shows the arp broadcast from the windows machine making > if over the linux bridge and getting responded to by the cisco gateway but > the response never makes it back over the bridge. Watching the mac table in > the linux bridge shows it mistakenly associates the mac address of the > windows machine to the wrong port (eth0 in my case, eth1 is the vNIC plugged > into the switch with the windows box) > Im not sure where the issue is; its really pretty simple setup. Am I missing > something simple? Is there really a bug here? > Thanks!
You do not wan to bridge in a VMWare environment, it will only drive you to an early grave. I've blogged my experience with this problem at http://robert.leblancnet.us/ you will need a google wave account to view it. In short use proxy arp instead if you can. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
