On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:25:48PM +0200, Øyvind Vågen Jægtnes wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Øyvind.
Forwarding your mail to netdev where the networking people are
hanging out. Maybe they can help you.
Sam
>
> We have a one gigabit internet connection that is normally
> routed by a hardware juniper router. The drive in this is down
> and we need to use a linux machine (Pentium D 3 ghz) as a
> temporary router.
> Now setting up all the 600 vlans and assigning ip addresses
> is no problem. We have testet all by using a laptop, setting up
> 600 vlan interfaces on this and running dhcpclient on all.
> This worked just fine, all the interfaces got address.
>
> Now for the real setup.
> We closed the mac of the juniper to the network card that
> would be connected to the internal LAN, set up the interfaces,
> and swapped cables. This worked fine for approximately 100
> of the computers that are connected, but the rest would not
> get IP. The connected 100 computers were routed just fine.
>
> What we think the problem is, is that the arp cache on the
> linux router seems strange. It can resolve the MAC for the
> 100 clients that actually got through.
> For the rest all we see in the arp cache is (incomplete)
>
> Here is some of the listing for arp -n:
> 193.239.155.118 ether 00:0A:E4:59:75:66 C
> eth1.1087
> 193.239.154.74 (incomplete)
> eth1.1016
> 193.239.155.7 ether 00:11:95:D2:3F:FD C
> eth1.2002
> 83.143.114.222 (incomplete)
> eth1.1305
> 83.143.113.246 ether 00:0B:5D:4B:B8:77 C
> eth1.1247
> 83.143.116.126 (incomplete)
> eth1.1409
> 83.143.118.114 (incomplete)
> eth1.1534
> 193.239.154.210 ether 00:03:0D:2F:1B:7F C
> eth1.1050
> 169.254.69.247 ether 00:15:C5:C2:31:6C C
> eth1.1262
> 83.143.112.38 (incomplete)
> eth1.1131
> 83.143.118.18 (incomplete)
> eth1.1510
> 83.143.112.118 ether 00:11:95:CE:BF:72 C
> eth1.1151
> 192.168.1.2 ether 00:0D:88:78:C0:00 C
> eth1.2050
> 83.143.117.138 (incomplete)
> eth1.1476
> 83.143.116.18 (incomplete)
> eth1.1382
> 83.143.118.26 (incomplete)
> eth1.1512
> 83.143.112.6 (incomplete)
> eth1.1123
> 193.239.155.62 (incomplete)
> eth1.1073
>
> `arp -n|wc -l` returns around 350, which is the number of active ports on
> the
> edge switches...
> this number is confirmed by snmp
>
> I have looked through the source for arp.c but i can't see any immediate
> problems. There is no messages in dmesg, kern.log og messages (except for
> eth1.vlanid up * 600).
>
> If anyone know what the problem can be, if this is a bug, or if PSBKC i
> would
> much appreciate it.
>
> regards
> Øyvind Vågen Jægtnes
> +47 96 22 03 08
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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