Thanks Scott,
That thought had crossed my mind. Perhaps the ESX admin didn't give this VM permission to go Promiscuous? Not familiar with ESX features, but perhaps that's the issue.
-Rob
Scott Lowe wrote:
Please read my responses inline below.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Robert Borowicz wrote:
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences?
Try enabling promiscuous mode on the port group to which the Sim VM is connected. I believe that's required in order to make the Simulator run as a VM under ESX:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/06/27/netapp-ontap-simulator-and-esx-server/
Good luck!