Do not do a route -f unless you are prepared to break things.
This suggestion is not right, the filer still needs a routing table if its clients are not all directly connected. It is not enough to reply out the same VIF as a request came in. (I'm no filer expert but this is standard TCP/IP networking.)
That's why I would tend to agree that whoever said the docs are wrong must be right that the gaurantee can only be made for the return IP address not for the VIF, though it could be that for many networks the VIF can also be maintained (but not gauranteed).
In my mind, if this is a routing issue it means someone somewhere has the wrong routing table or netmask. Or a routing table is incomplete. Any of these boxes or sub-nets newly configured?
Good luck,
Gerald Justice
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner- toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of tmac Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:28 AM To: Romeo Theriault Cc: Holland, William L; Funke, Stefan; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: routing issue with 2 vifs on same subnet?
I suspect if:
you turn ip.fastpath (back) on and you clear the default route, you may likely be OK.
The filer should only need the default route for its' own services like sending autosupport and if the mail server is on the same subnet, then the default route is really not needed.
When clients come in to a particular interface, ip.fastpath should allow the request to go back out the same way they came in.
might be worth a try to see if that in fact does it. --tmac Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant
RedHat Certified Engineer 804006984323821 (RHEL4) 805007643429572 (RHEL5)
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Romeo Theriault romeotheriault@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM, tmac tmacmd@gmail.com wrote:
just for kicks, have your tried:
route -f
on your filer? if sa default route is set up, it may be the culprit. you may not need the default route on the filer if all you services are on the same subnet.
Nope, haven't tried this. Since we have some clients that connect to
the
filers from other subnets I'm not sure that this would be a good idea
for
us.
-- Romeo Theriault