Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-22 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 21:46 +, Nick Hilliard wrote: It would be really nice if cisco supported ping a.b.c.d source a.b.c.X where a.b.c.X was the virtual IP - it would solve a couple of problems including this one. Unfortunately, they don't support it: % Invalid source address- IP

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 03/21/2013 06:14 PM, David Hubbard wrote: I've read that at least on the ipv4 side, many Windows servers will not accept the gratuitous arp when vrrp is brought up so they'll just sit there happily talking to the dead hsrp MAC. I can't find That has not been my experience. In fact, quite

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-22 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 22/03/2013 07:55, Peter Rathlev wrote: Though a rather cumbersome procedure, one can actually trick routers to use the HSRP address via a dummy VRF. Many people probably know this already, but for the record (here Sup720/SXI): oh, I didn't know about this trick. Two misfeatures being used

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-22 Thread Adam Greene
It would be really nice if cisco supported ping a.b.c.d source a.b.c.X where a.b.c.X was the virtual IP - it would solve a couple of problems including this one. Unfortunately, they don't support it Yeah, having a problem related to this in which the virtual IP address is in a separate subnet

[c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-21 Thread David Hubbard
So this should be fun; I need to swich from HSRP to VRRP to facilitate bringing in a second vendor's hardware to interoperate. We run ipv4 and ipv6 (static assignments) and the VLANs are a mix of physical servers along with vmware guests on Cisco UCS with the fabric interconnects in end-host

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/03/2013 18:14, David Hubbard wrote: So this should be fun; I need to swich from HSRP to VRRP to facilitate bringing in a second vendor's hardware to interoperate. We run ipv4 and ipv6 (static assignments) and the VLANs are a mix of physical servers along with vmware guests on Cisco

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Pressé
I perhaps didn't do as much reading regarding swapping HSRP for VRRP. Nothing broke, Server 2008 and 2003 environment with some Novell. And a few hundred XP/Win7 users. That was on an all IPv4 network though. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:14 PM, David Hubbard dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com wrote:

Re: [c-nsp] Swap hsrp with vrrp in mixed physical/vmware environment?

2013-03-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/03/2013 20:13, Alex Pressé wrote: Nothing broke, Server 2008 and 2003 environment with some Novell. And a few hundred XP/Win7 users. it won't break; there will just be a changeover period where some of the client boxes will not know about the new VRRP mac address of the default gateway,