Glad to hear you have it working.

--David

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Michael Phillips
<mphilli7...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Figured it out....
> Apparently by default outbound traffic is blocked by egress 
> rule...implemented an egress rule and it's working....
>
>> From: mphilli7...@hotmail.com
>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: One last hurdle
>> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:37:45 -0600
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>> I am almost there to having a working config with advanced network on 
>> vsphere 5.1
>> So I am using a pretty basic advanced network zone using vlan for isolation. 
>> Details are below:
>> Public range = x.x.233.0/24
>> Guest cidr = 10.1.1.0/24
>> VLAN range = 400-405
>>
>> 1. I create an instance of the default centos5.3 template, choosing to 
>> create a isolated network based on 
>> "DefaultIsolatedNetworkOfferingWithSourceNatService"
>> 2. The system spawns a system router.
>> 3. The system spawns the guest vm.
>> 4. The router is made a part of the public vlan 233 and the isolated vlan 400
>> 5. The guest vm is made a part of the isolated vlan 400.
>> 6. The router is assigned an IP address on the isolated network of 10.1.1.1. 
>> The router is able to get out to the internet fine, and is able to ping the 
>> guest instance.
>> 7. The guest is assigned an ip address on the isolated network. The guest vm 
>> is able to ping the router
>> Network Topology would look as follows:
>> guestvm ---> system router ---> firewall ---> router ---> internet
>> Up to this point everything LOOKS perfect...BUT...my guest vm is not able to 
>> get out to the internet.
>> At first I thought my problem might be with the hop after the system router 
>> which is my firewall. So what I did was to imitate what CS is doing, but 
>> with windows machines. Basically I spawned two machines, one which acted as 
>> a guest vm, the other to act as a system router. On the windows box, which I 
>> simulated the system router, I enabled routing and remote access to enable 
>> NAT. In this configuration the guest vm was able to use the simulated system 
>> router and browse the internet just fine. The test topology would look as 
>> follows:
>> guest vm ---> simulated router running windows and NAT ---> firewall ---> 
>> router ---> internet
>> So this leads me to believe that something is wrong with the system router 
>> and how it is NAT'ing. Up to this point I have tried the default network 
>> service "DefaultIsolatedNetworkOfferingWithSourceNatService" and created a 
>> new network offering using DNS,DHCP, and SourceNAT.
>> I think once I get past this hurdle I will be be good to go....any help is 
>> hugely appreciated!!
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