Re: [Bridge] Bridging vSwitches in VMwares ESXi

[Ryan Whelan <ryan.whelan@tbamerica.com>]

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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?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ryan King <ryank@globaldial.com> wrote:
>
> > I've also had the exact same issues.  However, if I move one of the vNICs
> to
> > a vSwitch using a different physical nic, then the issue seems to go
> away.
>
> In my experience, as long as you only have on pNIC per vSwitch, it
> works just fine. As soon as you add a second pNIC to the vSwitch, it
> creates a loop and confuses the linux bridge (you can watch the MAC
> bounce between ports if you do a standard ping from one machine and a
> broadcast ping from another machine). We were using Broadcom NICs.
>
>
> Robert LeBlanc
> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
> Brigham Young University
>
>
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