Networking issue between SP's and servers on different VLAN

Question

I am trying to access the Management Port IP addresses for my SP's from a server that is on a different VLAN than the Management Port IP addresses. I can ping from the SP's to the server in Unisphere, but I get no response from the SP's when pinging them from the server. From the server I can successfully ping other devices in the same subnet as my SP's. I noticed in the network configuration properties for my SP's that VLAN tagging is disabled, but I don't know if that is a problem since I can successfully ping the server from Unisphere.

Any thoughts?

Josh Vooris

jvooris · Answer

I forgot to mention in my original post that the SP's addresses are in the native VLAN on the switch, so there shouldn't be any tagging on those ports. Thanks, Josh

dynamox · Answer

do you know if SP's network ports are VLAN tagged on the switch side ?

dynamox · Answer

firewall blocking icmp ? IP filtering enabled on the SPs (http://SPA/setup ..administration access restrictions) ?

jvooris · Answer

No firewall rules blocking ICMP, and IP filtering is disabled. This is really puzzling to me because I can successfully ping from Unisphere to the servers VLAN, but not the other way around.

Thanks,

Josh

kelleg · Answer

Is the array part of the Celerra - NAS box - if so, the SP management ports are connected to the control station and use proxy arp - glen

dynamox · Answer

they should still be pingable

jvooris · Answer

No Celerra NAS.  The array is a Clariion CX4-120.

kelleg · Answer

The servers in the same VLAN as the Management ports are working correctly? Ping in both directions? What are the servers - Windows? Do they have multiple NICs (multi-honed)? Maybe the ping from the host is not really using the NIC that you want?

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Networking issue between SP's and servers on different VLAN

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