Thanks for the ideas. I tried disabling vlan offloading and didnt have much
luck. Do I need to restart networking or anything? How do i create a
generic NIO vs the Linux one?

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Bob McCouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> sudo ethtool -K eth0 rxvlan off ; sudo ethtool -K eth0 txvlan off
>
> Substitute your NIC in if it's not eth0.
>
> Ubuntu 12.04 started using NIC VLAN tag offloading whereas 10.X and 11.X
> did not. I had the exact same issue -- frames from virtual routers were
> making it out to the switch, but not back in.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
>
> PS -- Theoretically speaking, if anyone ever used IOU, they might discover
> that iou2net.pl needs the opposite. They might find it seems to work
> *only* with VLAN tag offloading enabled in Ubutnu 12.04.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Ryan Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>> I followed the guide on IPE's site here:
>>
>> http://blog.ipexpert.com/2011/02/28/gns3-and-physical-switches-breakout-switch/#more-6136
>>
>> I have a 24-port 3750 as my Breakout switch and my Lab Cat1-4 are also
>> 3750
>> switches. I had a fine-working setup for a while, but I had a situation
>> where I had to upgrade my server hardware (ahh shucks right?). Previous
>> server was a Dell 2850 running Ubuntu 10.x LTS, 4gb RAM, dual dual-core
>> CPU, dual NICs. New setup is a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, 32gb
>> RAM, dual quad-core CPU, 8 NICs (two on-board, 2 on a PCIX card, and 4
>> more
>> on a PCIX card). With the old server, this worked flawlessly.
>> The problem I'm hitting is that my Physical switches aren't able to
>> communicate with my Virtual routers. My switches see CDP from the virtual
>> routers, but the reverse is not true. I can ping Physical <-> Physical and
>> Virtual <-> Virtual, but not Physical <-> Virtual. My physical switches
>> are
>> getting ARP from the virtual routers, but that's about it. I.E. My Cat4
>> has
>> an ARP resolution for R9's Fa0/1 interface, but R9 does not have a
>> resolution for CAT4s vlan2300 IP.
>> I'm not sure if it's an OS thing or maybe a NIC thing? I've tried using
>> different NICs. Tried the onboard (didnt work at all), and now I'm using a
>> NIC on the dual-port card. I could try a port on the quad-port card as
>> well.
>>
>> Has anyone had a similar problem?
>> Here's some config info:
>> Server NIC config:
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:17:25:d4:38
>>           inet6 addr: fe80::215:17ff:fe25:d438/64 Scope:Link
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1536  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:4106983 errors:0 dropped:13869 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:89768 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:401023113 (401.0 MB)  TX bytes:29160705 (29.1 MB)
>>           Interrupt:17 Memory:d5ee0000-d5f00000
>>
>> I noticed the NIC is showing quite a few dropped packets, the dropped
>> packets are incrementing, but slowly. If I start a ping from CAT4 to R9,
>> the dropped packets aren't incrementing with the ping.
>>
>> Breakout switch has system MTU set to 1546.
>>
>> I layed down the Ubuntu OS, ran recommended patches, then installed GNS3
>> and followed the above guide. That's all I've done to the host. Any
>> thoughts? Thanks.
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