[c-nsp] Quick routing question.

Michael K. Smith - Adhost mksmith at adhost.com
Thu Sep 9 13:22:55 EDT 2010


One other thing.  Do you have an rACL that is blocking ICMP return traffic to your interface IP?

Mike

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:15 AM
> To: 'Heath Jones'
> Cc: cisco-nsp
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Quick routing question.
> 
> Have they correctly set their end of the link - does the IP address actually
> match what you think it should be?
> What does ARP say!!? ARP is the most underutilised tool for stuff like this!
> --
> They claim they have, and arp says this:
> 
> rtr#sh ip arp
> Protocol  Address          Age (min)  Hardware Addr   Type        Interface
> Internet  x.x.x.14              -   xxxx.xxxx.a9dc  ARPA        GigabitEthernet2/1/0
> Internet  x.x.x.13             14   xxxx.xxxx.4d7a  ARPA        GigabitEthernet2/1/0
> Internet  x.x.x.12              -   xxxx.xxxx.a9dc  ARPA        GigabitEthernet2/1/0
> 
> (Ignore the 'gigabit' part, on 12000s for some reason they never changed the
> interface names).
> 
> 
> I can see a scenario where downstream hosts could ping that IP, if they are
> taking a different path and the ISP screwed up, and you could not because
> on that router it will be taking the connected route. Only if there is another
> path via another router - do a traceroute... Another option is they have an
> egress filter on the new port that the replies hit, but not on the old one. Are
> you not bringing up BGP on the new link? Does it just not work, or you
> haven't configured it yet?
> --
> [root at vmz bin]# tracert x.x.x.13
> traceroute to x.x.x.13 (x.x.x.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  gw (gw)  0.486 ms  0.458 ms  0.463 ms
>  2  core (core)  0.460 ms  0.710 ms  0.709 ms
>  3  rtr (rtr)  0.427 ms  0.428 ms  0.425 ms
>  4  x.x.x.Level3.net (x.x.x.13)  3.238 ms  3.238 ms  3.236 ms
> 
> So you can see here that it does at least appear to be exiting on the correct
> router.
> 
> I haven't configured BGP yet because I generally like to see some kind of
> regular connectivity before I do that.
> 
> Turn on packet captuing for the new interface, bring the link down and up.
> You should be able to see the gratuitous ARP packets (if you are not seeing
> anything useful with show arp).
> --
>  I will check this.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Drew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9 September 2010 17:35, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com>
> wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I currently have two connections to Level3 because I am upgrading, one (the
> old one) is a 1Gbps connection in Router-1, the second one is a 10Gbps
> connection in Router-2.
> 
> Both connections are up/up, the old connection is getting a full BGP session
> from Level3.
> 
> I noticed that no matter what I do, I can't seem to ping Level3's side of our
> 10Gbps interface on the new connection from either of the 2 routers
> 
> rtr#ping ip
> Target IP address: x.x.x.13
> Repeat count [5]:
> Datagram size [100]:
> Timeout in seconds [2]:
> Extended commands [n]: y
> Source address or interface: x.x.x.14
> Type of service [0]:
> Set DF bit in IP header? [no]:
> Validate reply data? [no]:
> Data pattern [0xABCD]:
> Loose, Strict, Record, Timestamp, Verbose[none]:
> Sweep range of sizes [n]:
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to x.x.x.13, timeout is 2 seconds:
> .....
> Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)
> 
> I am able to ping their side of the interface from hosts downstream from the
> routers, just not the routers themselves.
> 
> [root at vmz ~]# ping x.x.x.13
> PING x.x.x.13 (x.x.x.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from x.x.x.13: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=3.27 ms
> 64 bytes from x.x.x.13: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=14.9 ms
> 64 bytes from x.x.x.13: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=3.01 ms
> 64 bytes from x.x.x.13: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=3.19 ms
> 64 bytes from x.x.x.13: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=3.10 ms
> 
> I can't really think of any reason why I wouldn't be able to ping their end of
> the Interface from this router, connectivity is obviously good considering I
> can ping it from a host downstream from the router.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any sort of gotcha when doing something like this?
> 
> -Drew
> 
> 
> 
> 
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