Gateway fails to connect with router but router can ping gateway.

[sadqazi]

Hello All,

I am setting up a Cisco 2911 router and came across a problem with the gateway connection.

My VM can access the gateway (192.168.1.1) but the gateway fails to ping my router (192.168.1.2). The message I get is 

VM-xxx>ping 192.168.1.2
PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.1.2 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 8999ms
, pipe 3

The router itself is able to ping the gateway, as shown below:

Router#ping 192.168.1.1
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.1.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/4 ms

Any ideas what is going on? and how to fix it?

Thank you,

Sadaf.

[paul driver]

Hello

can you explain the physical setup

res

paul

[sadqazi]

Hello Paul,

The physical setup is shown in the attached diagram. The 2911 is connected to the main switch through a SM-ES3G in it's slot 1. I am attempting to ping the 2911 from the VM and the VM is pinging one IP but not the next IP. I know it's kind of confusing but the picture should make things clear.