From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <000001cad5e4$fcc81030$f6583090$@com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:41:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: Ryan Whelan Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636c5bc31694e2604839c80b9 Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridging vSwitches in VMwares ESXi List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org --001636c5bc31694e2604839c80b9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ryan King 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 > > > _____________________________________ > This e-mail and any attachments from Toyota Boshoku America > (TBA), TrimMasters Inc. (TMI), or other affiliated companies may > contain confidential and privileged information. > > If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender > immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any > copies. > > Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other > than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. > --001636c5bc31694e2604839c80b9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable oh good- glad to find out im not crazy. we do have 2 pNICs in the external = facing vSwitch.=A0 Even when setting them as active/passive, its still an i= ssue.

so its a confirmed issue with vmware- do they have any intenti= on on correcting it? do we know?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Robert LeBla= nc <robert@leb= lancnet.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. =A0However, if I move one of = the vNICs to
> a vSwitch using a different physical nic, then the issue seems to go a= way.

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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