Suddenly unable to access VMs

From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:06:18 UTC
My bhyve VMs have been all fine until now.
I can't ping them and can't SSH into them. However, I can connect to them
with VNCViewer from a remote host (my PC from my house) :-(

I haven't done any changes on the host at all.
dnsmasq is running, but seems like the VMs aren't getting the IPs for some
reason.

```
cloned_interfaces="bridge0 tap0 tap1 tap2 tap3 tap4 tap5"
ifconfig_bridge0_name="vmbridge"
ifconfig_vmbridge="addm em1 addm tap0 addm tap1 addm tap2 addm tap3 addm
tap4 addm tap5 up"
ifconfig_vmbridge_alias0="inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
```
What might have happened?


root@gw:/home/wash # ifconfig vmbridge
vmbridge: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP>
metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=0
        ether 58:9c:fc:10:df:1d
        inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
        member: tap5 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 10 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: tap4 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 9 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: tap3 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 8 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: tap2 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 7 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: tap1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000000
        member: em1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 55
        groups: bridge
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
root@gw:/home/wash # ssh 172.16.0.99
ssh: connect to host 172.16.0.99 port 22: Permission denied
root@gw:/home/wash # ssh 172.16.0.100
ssh: connect to host 172.16.0.100 port 22: Permission denied
root@gw:/home/wash # ping 172.16.0.100
PING 172.16.0.100 (172.16.0.100): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: sendto: Permission denied
^C
--- 172.16.0.100 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
root@gw:/home/wash # ping 172.16.0.99
PING 172.16.0.99 (172.16.0.99): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: sendto: Permission denied
^C
--- 172.16.0.99 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
root@gw:/home/wash # service dnsmasq status
dnsmasq is running as pid 4190.
root@gw:/home/wash #



-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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