I don't like this solution, because I don't have enough public
addresses as it is, but if I create a vlan interface on the switch
then it will forward arp to all the appropriate interfaces.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't seen this before and it's causing me all kinds of headache.
>
> I have a Cisco 3560G with
> * some local VLAN interfaces and RIP2
> * a router-on-a-stick and RIP2 (on a trunk port)
> * a Xen server on a trunk port (VMs can be on one or more of three
> different VLANs)
> * some hosts on access ports
>
> RTR is the Router-on-a-stick
> HostA is a Virtual Machine on the Xen server.
> HostB is a physical server on an access port.
> HostA and HostB are on the same subnet.
> RTR is the default gateway for the subnet of HostA and HostB.
> RTR can ping both HostA and HostB
> HostA can ping other hosts on access ports and hosts on other networks.
> HostB can ping other hosts that are VMs and hosts on other networks.
>
> HostA can NOT ping HostB (or other VMs on that network) and HostB can
> NOT ping HostA (or other physical servers on that network).
>
> I can see ARP requests on RTR from both HostA and HostB, but the hosts
> themselves never see the ARP requests from the other host.
>
> If I manually add the hosts to each other's ARP table then HostA can
> ping HostB and visa versa.
>
> So ... What the heck is going on? Why isn't the switch forwarding the
> ARP requests to all ports on the same VLAN?
>
> I think the trouble started when I enabled RIP2 on the switch. But
> neither I nor Google can figure out why that would matter or how to
> fix it.
>
> --
> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
> --Atom Powers--
>



-- 
Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
--Atom Powers--
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