ACE VIP not pinging within ACE but ping from outside

[ssivanan]

Hi ,

I am using ACE appliance for Server Load balancing. Trying to Load balance Exchange Hub and Transport roles.

Here ACE is connected to Cat6k.

I have client vlan configured with Vlan 30. and VIP address is 172.16.30.5

I have server vlan at vlan 100 .

When i see the sh arp cmd, i could see VSERVER is up

When i try to ping VIP address  from CAT6k it is working fine.

when i ping VIP from ACE itself, it ping failes.

When i try to telnet to VIP,, it says ' connection is refused'

Please let me know why i couldnt ping ACE VIP from ACE.

[Surya ARBY]

As far as I know it's normal and it works like that by design.

[ssivanan]

Thank you for quick response.

I couldnt telnet to VIP from ACE or Cat6k, any reason for this?

[Surya ARBY]

is telnet allowed in the managaement service policy bound to the vlan interface ?

[ssivanan]

2 service policy has been bound to the interface

one is remote_mgmt_allow_policy which allow telnet and other connections.

other policy is to map the vip of serverfarm.

Cat6k is able to ping VIP but telnet says ' connection refused by remote host'