vmx and esxi vst mode vlan tagging

[Marko Cupać]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:41:02 +0300
Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Marko Cupa'c wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:23:53 +0200
> > Marko Cupa'c <marko.cupac at mimar.rs> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have just spent half an hour bashing my head against the wall
> > > why my FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE i386 machine with kernel-included vmx
> > > driver and emulators/open-vm-tools installed won't ping machines
> > > on the other vlan on the same vSwitch. It DOES ping other virtual
> > > machines on the same vSwitch and same vlan (freebsd servers), and
> > > it DOES ping physical machines in other vlans. It DOES NOT ping
> > > virtual machines on the same vSwitch and different vlan (windows
> > > servers).
> > > 
> > > To cut the long story short, it appears that the problem is on
> > > FreeBSD side, as another machine (FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-p14 amd
> > > 64) with vmx3f0 driver and VMWare's vmware-tools installed pings
> > > everything as it should.
> > > 
> > > Could it be that FreeBSD's vmx driver does not support all the
> > > functions of vmware's vmx3f driver?
> > 
> > I deleted open-vm-tools and installed vmware-tools, but the broblem
> > remains. I'm gonna test if 10.2-RELEASE amd64 has the same issue.
> > That should tell me if problem is related to difference between
> > i386 and amd64 in 10.2-RELEASE. If not, could this be a regression
> > in 10.2?
> > 
> > Should I report a bug or do some more testing?
> 
> netstat -nr
> arp -na
> ifconfig -a
> ping's commands and results.

Sorry guys, please dismiss this issue entirely. I was constantly
setting /24 subnet mask whereas the correct mask for the vlan is /27.

Please consider the fact that my long-needed vacation starts tomorrow :)

Regards,
-- 
Marko Cupać
https://www.mimar.rs/