No network access after ESX 4.0 install

[John_Balsillie]

Hi all,

I am hoping you can help me out. I have just installed ESX 4.0 natively onto a Dell Latitude D630 (8GB RAM) for demo purposes. The install was flawless and ESX 4.0 boots perfectly. Only problem is networking is dead. vmnic0 and vswif0 are both present and look good with the nic reporting a connected "up" connection to my network.There is no connectivity from the service console out to the network or from the network into the service console.

esxcfg-nics, -vswif and -vswitch all look good. ifconfig also looks good but pings out to the same subnet show destination host unreachable. Same results for an install with static IP and for DHCP.

Any tips would be very welcome. Thanks.

JohnB

[Alethay]

Have you set a VLAN ID in service console during the installation?

Try to remove that!

[John_Balsillie]

No, I didn't set a VLAN id during install. Just to be sure, how do I get full parameters for the vswif from the command line? ifconfig shows me ip and mask but not VLAN id, gw, or dns addresses.

JohnB

[Alethay]

There are some vlan configured on the physical switch where do you attach the host?

Esxcfg-vswitch -l show you VLAN ID, name and physical nic assigned to vswitch.

[John_Balsillie]

No VLANs. There is only currently a "VM Network" port group and a "Service Console" port group, both on vmnic0 and both have VLAN id of 0.

The physical nic is connected to a 10/100 switch and esxcfg-nics - l shows the link speed also at 100Mbps.

As a ping out from the command line to the gw address that I conigured at install time shows "destination host unreachable" (and not "request timed out") I suspect that this is a routing issue.

The /etc/sysconfig/network file correctly lists the gateway address at 192.168.0.1 (my router) and the route command output also looks good. However, pings to the gw adress fail with destination host unreachable.

???

JohnB

[Alethay]

I don't know your network infrastructure, but yes seems to be a routing problem. Ther's another switch between you and your esx or between the esx and your gateway? Try to attach your client on the same 10/100 switch and try to ping your esx s.c.

[John_Balsillie]

Its a very basic setup. One ESX laptop direct connected to a router with built-in 4 port 10/100 switch. One XP desktop connected to same switch. The router/switch can see both devices but the esx laptop cannot ping the router/switch.

JohnB

[Alethay]

Try to restart network services, if the interface bring up succesfull maybe is an hardware compatibility issue.