On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Ryan Whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > oh good- glad to find out im not crazy. we do have 2 pNICs in the external > facing vSwitch. Even when setting them as active/passive, its still an > issue. > > so its a confirmed issue with vmware- do they have any intention on > correcting it? do we know? >
Yes as long as the pNIC is attached, even if in standby mode it causes a problem. It is an issue, but they won't fix it for two reasons. 1. They will never create a bridge between two vSwitches/VLANs, and 2. a fix would introduce more overhead and reduce flexibility and since they adhere to #1, it doesn't make sense. The flexibility they lose is multiple pNICs to one or more switches without having to have any trunking protocols. You can get around the problem by buying the Cisco Nexus virtual switch, it's a real layer 3 switch, but it's a pricy option. If you want a bridge in a VM, then only pNIC per switch (no redundancy). The other option, try to make the bridge a router instead. For us we wanted a transparent firewall, so it was easy to change the configuration to proxyarp for a transparent router instead. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
