Thanks Ben, it was a routing issue with my rc.firewall file. You all can add bcm5700 with a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet card (pretty much all new dell servers) to your list of known working setups. Thanks a lot, David On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:47:06 -0800, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Sankel wrote: > > > > Hello List, > > > > I've gotten my new VLAN network almost to the point of perfection > > and now have a little snag. > > > > There are three different VLANS: offices, freenet, and dsl. My Switch > > (Dell PowerConnect 3324) has one non-tagged access port for each of > > these three networks. The other port is a trunk that can connect to > > all networks which goes into my linux box. > > > > I want to use the linux box as a router so the offices and freenet can > > use the dsl line to access the internet, but not eachother. > > > > So, I did all the configuration necessary to do this and the linux box > > does its job perfectly. All computers in the offices and freenet > > VLANS can ping ssh and do anything they need using the linux box as a > > router. > > > > The snag is that the linux box itself can only ping hosts on the three > > VLANS and cannot connect with ssh or http. I'm using kernel 2.6.9 and > > bcm5700-7.3.5.tar.gz network driver downloaded from broadcom. > > > > I'm sort of at a loss as to how to troubleshoot this. I've tried > > changing the mtu but that had no positive affect. Could it be a > > driver problem? A configuration problem? > > > > I've attached my configuration scripts for reference although I don't > > think they are the problem. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > David J. Sankel > > > > PS: The broadcom driver supposedly fully supports vlans. > > You may have routing issues, or maybe you have some firewall rules > that limit communication? > > Try traceroute to see if the routing looks correct. Can also use > tcpdump or ethereal to watch traffic to make sure your arps and other > packets are going out on the right interface/VLAN. > > Ben > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vlan mailing list > > Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > >
