On 07/19/2011 12:14 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
> 
>  > I built a CentOS 6 machine to host several CentOS 6 guest servers. As all 
> guests will be Internet facing I set up the host with two bridged NICs and 
> assigned an Internet facing IP address to br0 and a local IP address to br1.
>  >
>  > Each guest was installed using br0 and br1 with virtio drivers.  On each I 
> assigned an Internet facing IP address to eth0 and a local IP address on 
> eth1.  So far so good.  I can access the guest servers from either IP address 
> as expected.  That is HTTP, SSH and SMTP servers on them are accessible and 
> do what they are supposed to do.
>  >
>  > Except...  Except from any location outside of my Comcast Cable Modem.  To 
> be clear, from any machine inside the modem to any address on the guests, all 
> works perfectly.  But outside the modem the guest apps either don't receive 
> packets or for some reason don't respond, and I've tired it from four 
> different locations.
>  >
>  > Using Wireshark on the guests I can see the packets arrive from the 
> outside sources, but no response is seen.  On accesses from inside I can see 
> both incoming and outgoing packets, as expected.
>  >
>  > I can ping the outside sources from the guests, yet pings from the outside 
> sources get no response from the guests.  All the outside sources get 
> responses when pinging the host.  I can ping the guests from any inside 
> machine.
>  >
> 
> Initial thought is a routing issue particularly with multiple NICs.
> 
> What does 'ip r s' reveal?
> 
That was it!  ip r s showed that I had the local facing NIC (eth1) as the 
gateway, which caused all outgoing packets to be routed to the local network 
DUH!.

Emmett
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