Thanks! Putting the vSwitch into promiscuous mode did the trick. What’s really strange is that it a VM on host1 would work, but not host2 or host3, until I made that change. Yet, none of them were set to promiscuous.
Zane > On Jun 7, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) > <david.hitt...@ngc.com> wrote: > > VMware has put some serious security enhancements on network ports in the > last few releases to prevent spoofing and otherwise tighten network security > to best practices. > > You might try enabling promiscuous mode on the vSwitch that you have the VM > connected to and see if that solves the "two mac addresses coming from the > same network port" problem. > The vSwitch promiscuous mode is set to "reject" by default. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Zane Healy > Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2019 4:21 PM > To: Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> > Cc: simh <simh@trailing-edge.com> > Subject: EXT :Re: [Simh] VAX networking issue > > >> On Jun 6, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote: > >> The above output is suspicious since it doesn't say that the XQ device >> has been attached to any interface. >> >> What is the output of SHOW ETHER on this simulator? >> Are you running as ROOT (which is required for network functionality on >> Linux unless you are using VDE Ethernet)? >> Is the VM Hypervisor you're running under configured to pass arbitrary MAC >> addresses out of that VM? >> >> Apart from these considerations relating to basic packet capabilities, once >> you have any networking functionality, you may encounter a problem that has >> been reported on some Linux systems. You're not encountering this now, but >> if you do, you should add the following line to your configuration file: >> sim> SET CLOCK NOCATCHUP >> >> The problem that is not always observed will be fixed soon and the SET CLOCK >> NOCATCHUP will no longer be necessary. >> >> - Mark >> > > I just figured out that this is a VMware issue. I’m going to have to do some > checking. I have a 3 system VMware cluster. Two of the systems are HP SFF > PC’s, the third is an HP DL380 G7. I just migrated the VM over to one of the > SFF systems, and it works. The SIMH/VAX is now a member of the cluster. > > I was unaware of SHOW ETHER, that should help me see what’s going on. I’ll > shut the VM down and migrate it back to the DL380. > > Zane > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
