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taylorb
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weird networking problem

I've got a weird one. Starting recently, we cannot access our vmware hosts console connection from any other subnets. Additionally, all 3 of my linux hosts, cannot traverse subnets, but all 40+ of my windows VMs can. So all my VMware stuff is in Subnet A. If I go to another server in Subnet B, I cannot ping or putty, or use the Vmware console on the Vmare hosts. From Subnet A it works fine. From Subnet B I CAN access the VC, which is on a windows box in Subnet A. Of course if I try to remote console a VM, it fails because those are the hosts that cannot be accessed. I've triple checked Subnet mask and gateway on all machines and DNS is out of way because I am testing with IPs. We are not doing VLAN taggin on my virtual switched. I can't think of anything we've changed and honeslty this started happing over the Thanksgiving holiday when the office was closed for 4 days.

Any ideas? Let me know if you need more info.

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ExCon
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Sounds like your network or firewall shop decided to use that long holiday weekend to make some changes... Smiley Wink

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taylorb
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Of course the network team says they didn't and the networking all looks normal. My only concern with troubleshooting is that all cross-subnet traffic works, except to/from the 3 vmware hosts and the 3 linux VMs on those hosts. Any windows VMs or any non-vm's work fine. Puzzling.....

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