[j-nsp] VMX to VMX traffic on ESXi

[Eduardo Schoedler]

Did you cloned VM? Did you change the mac-address?

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Eduardo Schoedler

2016-03-21 16:32 GMT-03:00 serge vautour <sergervautour at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions.
>
> I did not have any licenses installed. Oddly enough VMX2 was showing:
>
> user at LabVMX2> show pfe statistics traffic bandwidth
>     Configured Bandwidth         : 1000000 bps
>     Bandwidth                    : 0 bps
>     Average Bandwidth            : 339 bps
>
> This explains why VMX1 could receive traffic from VMX2. VMX1 had:
>
> user at LabVMX1> show pfe statistics traffic bandwidth
>     Configured Bandwidth         : 0 bps
>     Bandwidth                    : 0 bps
>     Average Bandwidth            : 0 bps
>
> This is very strangle considering I created both VMX from the same install
> file and they have near identical configs!?!
>
> Anyway I downloaded a 60 trial license from the Juniper web site and
> installed on both. Everything is now working as expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Serge
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Raphael Mazelier <raph at futomaki.net> wrote:
>
>> I have got some strange problem with vmx on vmware.
>> First double check if all our vswitch are in promiscuous mode.
>> Check also if you use vxnet or e1000 type of interface, I've got erratic
>> problems with vxnet, and gave up with it.
>> Check the mac address mapping, and finaly check if you have proper license
>> installed ;) (I've spend one hour to find why one of my test vmx does not
>> anymore, before I found that the license have expired...)
>>
>> --
>> Raphael Mazelier
>>
>> Le 18/03/2016 21:49, serge vautour a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I haven't had any replies in the Juniper VMX forum so I thought I'd try
>>> here:
>>>
>>> I have setup 2 VMX (each with a VCP & VPFE) on one ESXi host using Junos
>>> VMX 15.1F4. Each VMX seems to be working fine on it's own. I can remotely
>>> access the fxp0 interface.
>>>
>>> I created a dedicated vswitch with promiscuous mode on for the GE
>>> interface. I used this vswitch for the 3rd NIC on each VPFE. I did not
>>> attach any physical NICs to the vswitch as I only want to use it for
>>> VMX-VMX traffic. Each VMX sees all 8 GE with ge-0/0/0 being up. I
>>> configure:
>>>
>>> user at LabVMX1> show configuration interfaces ge-0/0/0
>>> description "Link to VMX2 ge-0/0/0";
>>> unit 0 {
>>> family inet {
>>> address 10.5.5.0/31;
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> user at LabVMX2> show configuration interfaces ge-0/0/0
>>> description "Link to VMX1 ge-0/0/0";
>>> unit 0 {
>>> family inet {
>>> address 10.5.5.1/31;
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> I also added OSPF to each interface. VMX1 seems to work fine. It shows
>>> in/out traffic. VMX2 only shows outbound traffic.
>>>
>>> Using "monitor traffic interface ge-0/0/0" command I see:
>>>
>>> VMX1:
>>>
>>> 14:56:57.489954 In IP 10.5.5.1 > 224.0.0.5: OSPFv2, Hello, length 56
>>> 14:57:02.079691 Out IP truncated-ip - 20 bytes missing! 10.5.5.0 >
>>> 224.0.0.5:
>>> OSPFv2, Hello, length 60
>>>
>>> VMX2:
>>> 14:57:48.925035 Out IP truncated-ip - 16 bytes missing! 10.5.5.1 >
>>> 224.0.0.5:
>>> OSPFv2, Hello, length 56
>>>
>>> 14:57:58.487367 Out IP truncated-ip - 16 bytes missing! 10.5.5.1 >
>>> 224.0.0.5:
>>> OSPFv2, Hello, length 56
>>>
>>> VMX1 arp cache:
>>>
>>> 00:0c:29:a7:e9:09 10.5.5.1 ge-0/0/0.0 none
>>>
>>> VMX2 arp cache is empty.
>>>
>>> I never see any inbound packets on VMX2. I've tied ping same result. I
>>> through this might be a broadcast/multicast problem so I tried configuring
>>> static arp entries and then did a ping but this didn't help.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Serge
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Eduardo Schoedler