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How do I setup WAN-Bridge on vmWare ESX?

Tod Larson
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How do I configure the WAN-Bridge wan emulator on an ESX server?

On ESX 4 I have WAN-Bridge booted and running.

- eth0 is connected to port group 10 - PG10 is the only PG on a standalone vswitch - this vswitch is connected to vmnic 1.

- eth1 is connected to port group 20 - PG20 is the only PG on a standalone vswitch - this vswitch is connected to vmnic 2.

1 ESX 4 host with 3 nics.  All 3 nics are connected to a 3560 switch.  Each interface is a dot1 trunk.

I have 2 routers.

- router A is connected to vlan 10 with ip address 1.1.1.1/24.

- router B is connected to vlan 20 with ip address 1.1.1.10/24.

Wan-bridge lets be manually create an IP address of 1.1.1.5/24, GW 127.0.0.1

Wan-bridge appears to be creating br0 fine.

The problem is that I can't pass traffic from Router A to router B across the WAN-bridge.  I try to ping from A to B with no luck.

show int trunk on the switch looks like by vmnic1 and vmnic 2 interfaces are not seeing any vlan 10 or 20 traffic.

any ideas are appreciated.  Thank you.

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Tod Larson
Level 3
Level 3

To make wan bridge work I had to make vswitch1 and vswitch2 do no vlan tagging and I set the physical swithports to access vlan 10 and 20, respectively. I also set the 2 vswitches to accept promiscuous mode.

Maybe that makes sense. Wan bridge bridges the 2 vnics together so dot1q taging can't change in the middle.