Appeal to bigger brains
I'm throwing this out there because I'm at a loss to figure out whats happening in our lab. I realise it's a bit outside the scope of this forum but as the subject line says I'm looking for some bigger brains - Beers are involved. We have an IBM blade chassis - only 4 blades at present - with a management VLAN 50 (192.168.10.0/24) and a data vlan 100 (10.10.10.10.0/24) hooked up to our prod network (10.10.1.0 and 11.11.1.0 -Yes I know this is BAD but I inherited the network and haven't been able to change it as yet) via a juniper SRX. Blades are running VMware 5.5 - no nic teaming as yet. All blades and AMM module (all on 192.168.10 addresses) can get to all parts of the network VMWare machine (Only one so far - on 10.10.10.0 network - can ping host, can ping external firewall, CAN ONLY PING ODD OR EVEN NUMBERED IP's DEPENDING ON WETHER IT HAS AN ODD\EVEN IP) ie if its forth octet is .125 it can ping .1, .3, .5 but if I change it to .126 it can only ping .2, .4, .6 Everything I've found online points to NIC teams in certain situations but none apply as the blades only have a single NIC enabled and the VM only has one NIC assigned. Appreciate any feedback Cheers, Andrew McBeath
➢ VMWare machine (Only one so far – on 10.10.10.0 network - can ping host, can ping external firewall, CAN ONLY PING ODD OR EVEN NUMBERED IP’s DEPENDING ON WETHER IT HAS AN > ➢ ODD\EVEN IP) ie if its forth octet is .125 it can ping .1, .3, .5 but if I change it to .126 it can only ping .2, .4, .6 Sounds like you have an access list /firewalling with .1 instead of .0 (ie 255.255.255.1) term odd_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.1/255.255.255.1; } } } Or term even_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.1; } } }
In cisco talk this would be below. (don't people love reverse subnet masks on ciscos) access-list 1 permit ip 192.168.10.1 0.0.0.254 # Odd Addresses access-list 2 permit ip 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.254 # Even Addresses -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Craig Whitmore Sent: Wednesday, 9 September 2015 12:01 a.m. To: 'Andrew McBeath'; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Appeal to bigger brains ➢ VMWare machine (Only one so far – on 10.10.10.0 network - can ping host, can ping external firewall, CAN ONLY PING ODD OR EVEN NUMBERED IP’s DEPENDING ON WETHER IT HAS AN > ➢ ODD\EVEN IP) ie if its forth octet is .125 it can ping .1, .3, .5 but if I change it to .126 it can only ping .2, .4, .6 Sounds like you have an access list /firewalling with .1 instead of .0 (ie 255.255.255.1) term odd_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.1/255.255.255.1; } } } Or term even_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.1; } } } _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
Thanks Craig, I'll recheck and get someone else to review in case I've got jaded eyes. There's are a pair of ASA's on the perimeter but they shouldn't be touching anything going from the vm guest network to the prod servers. Will recheck them as well though. Andrew McBeath
On 9/09/2015, at 12:04 am, Craig Whitmore
wrote: In cisco talk this would be below. (don't people love reverse subnet masks on ciscos)
access-list 1 permit ip 192.168.10.1 0.0.0.254 # Odd Addresses access-list 2 permit ip 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.254 # Even Addresses
-----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Craig Whitmore Sent: Wednesday, 9 September 2015 12:01 a.m. To: 'Andrew McBeath'; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Appeal to bigger brains
➢ VMWare machine (Only one so far – on 10.10.10.0 network - can ping host, can ping external firewall, CAN ONLY PING ODD OR EVEN NUMBERED IP’s DEPENDING ON WETHER IT HAS AN > ➢ ODD\EVEN IP) ie if its forth octet is .125 it can ping .1, .3, .5 but if I change it to .126 it can only ping .2, .4, .6
Sounds like you have an access list /firewalling with .1 instead of .0 (ie 255.255.255.1)
term odd_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.1/255.255.255.1; } } }
Or
term even_only { from { source-address { 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.1; } } }
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From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Andrew McBeath Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2015 7:53 PM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] Appeal to bigger brains
VMWare machine (Only one so far - on 10.10.10.0 network - can ping host, can ping external firewall, CAN ONLY PING ODD OR EVEN NUMBERED IP's DEPENDING ON WETHER IT HAS AN ODD\EVEN IP) ie if its forth octet is .125 it can ping .1, .3, .5 but if I change it to .126 it can only ping .2, .4, .6
Andrew McBeath
Hi Andrew, I came across something similar the other week at dayjob(); as a customer reported fault. In that case it turned out to be their switch - if they moved between a pair of stacked switches they could ping some hosts and not others depending on the source address and destination address and where they were plugged in. I believe they eventually resolved it with vendor intervention. If this is your lab, try moving between ports and keeping your IP address the same and see if you find you can reach some hosts and not others and whether it changes to the inverse once you move your port.
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Andrew McBeath
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Brian Gibbons
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Craig Whitmore
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Tim Warnock