[j-nsp] VMX to VMX traffic on ESXi

[serge vautour]

No I didn't clone the VMs. I did 2 fresh installs from the same juniper
image. You can see in my outputs that the MACs are different. Everything is
working now that I've applied the license. -Serge

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Eduardo Schoedler <listas at esds.com.br>
wrote:

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