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guyenvmware000
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additional NIC interface connected to second router is not getting IP

Hi I have an esxi5 running on hp micro server with two physical NIC cards which is visible on esxi as vmnic0 and vmnic1. Originally I was using vmnic0 as a main network as management interface and also VM NICs which is connected to my internet. No problem here. Now I connected the second adapter which is represented as vmnic1 to another private router in my home which has its own separate subnet through physical wire. That second router has its own Dhcp and configured correctly as I connect my cell phone and tablet to that and gets ip from its DHCP. However vmnic1 is not getting IP address at all. Here is the configuration:

phys. netcard vmnic0 192.168.1.254 (ip got from internet router) no issues, connected to management network vSwitch0

phys. netcard vmnic1 ??? no ip, connected to separate vSwitch2, physical network is connected to router with DHCP 10.0.1.1 with range 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.100

For debug effort, I imported vmnic1 into VM running on that ESXi and statically assigned ip address 10.0.1.101 so that it falls in same subnet as second router and tried to ping router (10.0.1.1) however got "destination unreachable" message. Obviously ping is not reaching the second router.

So my question is why? Can someone help on this?

I put below the esxi configuration network:

Thanks!

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guyenvmware000
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i just specified it arbitrarily when I was creating vSwitch2, to not interfere the vSwitch0. 2nd router does not have any vlan setting.  Should i not do it and leave the vlan to default? Thanks,

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Rubeck
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Who does the tagging of ethernet frames with VLAN ID 200 in your setup...? Your router? Or do you have a physical switch doing this? Some device outside your ESXi box has to as frames that leave your "network24ghz" portgroup are being tagged with this ID..

/Rubeck

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i just specified it arbitrarily when I was creating vSwitch2, to not interfere the vSwitch0. 2nd router does not have any vlan setting.  Should i not do it and leave the vlan to default? Thanks,

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well before you know it, i eliminated this vlan id and set it to 0, and everything works fine. I will be working to setup the router between these two switches but that is different issue. Thanks a lot!

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Rubeck
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You're most welcome :slightly_smiling_face: Glad to hear you got it sorted out...

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