Hello, I am hoping that someone might be able to give me some pointers on how to use linux vlan tagging to solve a broadcast domain conflict. I'm going around in circles on this one. I have two servers with different ipv4 addresses on an 802.1Q-capable ethernet switch. Each server is running a VMware virtual machine running an apache web server. However, both of the virtual machines have the same ip address. Changing the ip addresses is not an option. I want server A to be able to choose whether to make HTTP requests to the virtual machine on server B or the virtual machine on server A. Likewise, I want server B to be able to make HTTP requests to whichever virtual machine it chooses. And, I want both server A and server B to still be able to communicate with each other (ssh traffic, rsync trafffic, etc...) How can I use linux VLAN id tagging to solve this problem? I know how to tag the traffic from each virtual machine with a unique VLAN id. And I have both physical servers on the same VLAN id. The switch is successfully routing the VLAN traffic. However, how do I get the physical servers to selectively route traffic to two identical ip addresses on different VLAN's? Or, is using VLAN's the wrong approach? Thanks in advance!
