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erin c
Asked: 2013-05-02 23:37:38 +0800 CST

debian clients connected to the same switch, ping problems

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I have two machines that are connected to the same switch. Machines have multiple ethernet interfaces connected to the different networks. Computer A can ping an antenna which is connected to the same switch, but can not ping Computer B using correct interface.(via ping -I eth2 in my case), but Computer B can ping the antenna and can ping Computer A using correct interface ( via ping -I eth9 in my case).

I checked interface details they both have same subnet masks, I tried tracert -i , results were consistent with the problem I mentioned above but it didn't reveal much. tracert on computer A took 30 hops and in the end it couldn't reach computer B. route command showed me routing tables are similar, only difference that I see is computer B have two interfaces defined in subnet but only one is physically connected at the time, can that be causing this weird problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

computer A

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 68:05:ca:02:e3:5c  
          inet addr:16.1.8.61  Bcast:16.1.63.255  Mask:255.255.192.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::6a05:caff:fe02:e35c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:144031 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:11302308 (10.7 MiB)  TX bytes:853551 (833.5 KiB)
          Memory:fe8e0000-fe900000 

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:d0:c9:ce:6d:7c  
          inet addr:192.168.1.15  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:c9ff:fece:6d7c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:17398 (16.9 KiB)  TX bytes:41787 (40.8 KiB)
          Memory:fe9e0000-fea00000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:8480 (8.2 KiB)  TX bytes:8480 (8.2 KiB)

computer B

    eth7      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:d0:c9:ce:6c:b2  
          inet addr:16.1.8.64  Bcast:16.1.63.255  Mask:255.255.192.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:c9ff:fece:6cb2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:134026 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:10611871 (10.1 MiB)  TX bytes:272509 (266.1 KiB)
          Memory:fe9e0000-fea00000 

eth8      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 68:05:ca:02:e1:c2  
          inet addr:192.168.1.60  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:8228  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Memory:fe8e0000-fe900000 

eth9      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 68:05:ca:02:e1:c3  
          inet addr:192.168.1.57  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::6a05:caff:fe02:e1c3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:40794 (39.8 KiB)  TX bytes:15778 (15.4 KiB)
          Memory:fe880000-fe8a0000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:22872 (22.3 KiB)  TX bytes:22872 (22.3 KiB)

Routing Table A

Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 localnet * 255.255.192.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default pfizmir.xxxx 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you have two separate physical interfaces on the same network, connected to the same VLAN, you will need to set up a few specific routing rules, ensuring that the server responds on the same interface that it received the packet on.

    With ip you can create additional tables, tables that are only used when traffic is received on one of the interfaces.

    First you will want to create two separate routing tables.

    echo 201 E9 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
echo 200 E8 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

    this creates the tables which will decide how to route the packets.

    ip route add 192.168.1.0 dev eth9 src 192.168.1.57 table E9
ip route add default via <your gateway for 192.168.1.0> table E9
ip route add 192.168.1.0 dev eth8 src 192.168.1.60 table E8
ip route add default via  <your gateway for 192.168.1.0> table E8

ip rule add from 192.168.1.57 table E9
ip rule add from 192.168.1.60 table E8

    and that should ensure that the packets that arrive on eth9 are responded to on eth9 and so on.

    As always, I recommend reading this page, it explains the concepts very well, and also gives you many more examples.

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