From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Elias Chatzigeorgiou <echatzigeorgiou@youtravel.com>
Cc: bridge@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridging under vmware esx 3.0
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:03:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080815150354.6fcf7510@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30CDFF93154A1B47814BD152CC5F9201089E4C73@YTMAIL.youtravel.local>
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:50:05 +0300
"Elias Chatzigeorgiou" <echatzigeorgiou@youtravel.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried to setup a bridge in a (debian-based) virtual machine using esx server. I added two nics on my vm connected then in two different networks and used the bridge utility (brctl) to bridge them. I gave the bridge an ip address so that it would be visible from the network.
>
> I can access both networks from that vm, and machines on both networks can access the vm.
>
> BUT PACKETS from net1 do not reach net2 and vise-versa.
>
> I have no ip/ebtable rules and /proc/sys/net/bridge/* files are set to zero.
>
> As a last check, I used tcpdump to dump packets comming from e.g. the net1 to the attached nic (eth0) and they seem to reach only if eth0 is not part of the bridge.
>
> PLEASE ADVISE.
>
> Thanks
> Elias Chatzigeorgiou
Vmware has their own bridge stuff, and is proprietary, ask them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-15 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 21:50 [Bridge] Bridging under vmware esx 3.0 Elias Chatzigeorgiou
2008-08-15 22:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-08-17 3:33 ` Joubert Berger
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