Hello Palash,
Thanks for the update, I'm glad you were able to resolve it. So the
underlay interface for the overlay network is a 802.1q tagged interface
then. Yes, the frames just won't end up going uplink with MTU mismatch.

Thanks,
Jayanth

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM Palash Biswas <palash...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jayanth,
>
> Thanks for the help! We resolved the issue by setting MTU at bond interface
> instead of physical interface.
>
> Thanks again for the help, lifesaver.
>
> Regards,
> Palash
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 12:21 PM, Jayanth Reddy <jayanthreddy5...@gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just remembered about my testing setup with the MTU 1550 set. The
> virtual
> > interfaces of VMs and VRs have 1500 and I don't see any issues with the
> > file transfers which make use of TCP over the Public Networks. Please
> > analyze your uplinks.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jayanth
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:58 AM Jayanth Reddy <
> jayanthreddy5...@gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Palash,
> > > Thanks for the response. The VR should have one NIC on your VXLAN
> overlay
> > > (guest) network and one on the public network. Please login to the
> > > hypervisors to ensure the vNICs of your VM, VTEP IF, VR, bridge are on
> an
> > > expected MTU of exactly 1500 bytes. Also for the Public network, your
> > VR's
> > > NIC should be having the same MTU as your physical interface (or
> bridge).
> > > Please also ensure you have IGMP snooping turned on, on your switches
> > > (because it is better to have); and as a quick test, can you try moving
> > > your VR to the same host where your VM resides and test if that works?
> If
> > > you still observe loss with VMs and VRs being in the same host, please
> > > inspect your Public Network on the uplinks for issues.
> > >
> > > *T**ip: *We also use VXLAN with multicast in our production but we make
> > > use of Jumbo Frames on Hypervisors (MTU: 9000). CloudStack creates our
> > > TEPs, vNICs, bridges with MTU 8950 and VMs, VRs are configured to use
> > 1500
> > > MTU by default inside the guest OS. Your issue may not exactly be with
> > MTU
> > > but something else.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jayanth
> > > ------------------------------
> > > *From:* Palash Biswas <palash...@gmail.com>
> > > *Sent:* Monday, January 15, 2024 10:53:38 AM
> > > *To:* users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org>
> > > *Subject:* Re: Disconnections to VMs from Public Network and VXLAN
> > >
> > > Hi Jayanth,
> > >
> > > The transfers work between VMs residing in different hypervisors when
> > using
> > > Guest network. Hypervisor physical interface is set at MTU 1550
> > >
> > > The transfers failed when attempting to connect using Public network
> > which
> > > is using VLAN and different physical network from the Guest network.
> > > Besides file transfer using port 22, port 3389 (Windows RDP) also
> failed.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Palash
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 9:08 AM, Jayanth Reddy <
> > jayanthreddy5...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Palash,
> > > >
> > > > Please confirm if the file transfers work between VMs residing in
> > > > different hypervisors. I hope you've already considered the overhead
> of
> > > 50
> > > > bytes for VXLAN and have already set atleast 1550 as MTU at your
> > physdev
> > > > interface used for VTEP communication among hypervisors.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jayanth Reddy
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Palash Biswas <palash...@gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2024 8:54:02 AM
> > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org>
> > > > Subject: Disconnections to VMs from Public Network and VXLAN
> > > >
> > > > Hi Community,
> > > >
> > > > We have set up Cloudstack using VXLAN (and Multicast).
> > > >
> > > > VXLAN = Guest Network VLAN = Management and Public Network (Using
> > > different
> > > > Physical Network) VLAN = Storage Network (Using Linstor SDS)
> > > >
> > > > Our VMs can ping each other. But the moment we have a file transfer
> to
> > > the
> > > > VMs from the public internet, the connections keeps disconnecting.
> > > >
> > > > We've been spending few days on this issue. Any ideas where we could
> > look
> > > > at?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Palash
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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