topic RE: IPARP Question in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 30 2013 8:34PM

Can anyone tell me what the output of IPARP means? I am unable to contact one of my vlans from outside of the switch. In other words, if I ping a device at IP 1.1.80.254 on vlan 800 from the core switch (an x670), I get a response. If I attempt to ping it from a host on another vlan, which means the x670 should be routing between the two, I can't get a response. These networks are all directly connected so no routing protocol is in use.

I did iparp vlan and saw the following:

* Slot-1 CORE # show iparp "vlan100"
VR Destination Mac Age Static VLAN VID Port
VR-Default 1.1.80.2 02:04:96:7d:e9:34 6 NO storage 800 1:41
VR-Default 1.1.80.3 02:04:96:7d:ff:da 6 NO storage 800 1:43
VR-Default 1.1.80.20 00:25:90:99:61:88 8 NO storage 800 1:43
VR-Default 1.1.80.254 00:25:90:61:36:04 0 NO storage 800 1:43

Dynamic Entries : 38 Static Entries : 0
Pending Entries : 0
In Request : 359032 In Response : 13524
Out Request : 25773 Out Response : 182597
Failed Requests : 2029
Proxy Answered : 0
Rx Error : 0 Dup IP Addr : 0.0.0.0
Rejected Count : 149003 Rejected IP : 1.1.80.254
Rejected Port : 1:43 Rejected I/F : vlan200

Max ARP entries : 8192 Max ARP pending entries : 256
ARP address check: Enabled ARP refresh : Enabled
Timeout : 20 minutes ARP Sender-Mac Learning : Disabled
Locktime : 1000 milliseconds
Retransmit Time : 1000 milliseconds
Reachable Time : 900000 milliseconds (Auto)

The portion that caught my attention was the "rejected IP" section (which is the IP of the device I'm trying to ping), and the "rejected I/F" which is actually a different vlan from the one the device I'm pinging belongs to. Could this be related at all to why I can't get to that device?

Please note, I have at least 5 other vlans set up in the same manner and am having no issues reaching them at the moment, so it seems to be specific to this vlan.

Thanks in advance. (from transient1)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 10:25AM

Hi,

did you enable ipforwarding on the vlan ?

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Jarek (from Jaroslaw_Kasjaniuk)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 4:05PM

Hi Jarek,

Yes, ipforwarding is enabled for all vlans. (from transient1)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 4:39PM

Do you have any ACL like destination/source address 1.1.80.0/24 - deny, on any vlans ?

Jarek (from Jaroslaw_Kasjaniuk)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 5:24PM

No, no ACLs at all. (from transient1)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 5:46PM

Host with IP 1.1.80.254 has a default route or knowledge where to send response to your IP adress ?

Jarek (from Jaroslaw_Kasjaniuk)

RE: IPARP Question

EtherNation_Use — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:02:00 GMT

Create Date: May 31 2013 8:52PM

Yes, the default route was set to the IP of the vlan on the core switch.

I went ahead and deleted the vlan from all the switches, and started over again. It's working now. I must have missed something in the configuration that I simply could not see from the show commands.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out. (from transient1)