jagter_freenas
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Hi,
I have a Freenas system with 4 x 10GB NIC's that are connected point to point to to 2 servers, each server has 2 x 10GB NIC's. Reason for this is that I don't have a 10GB switch at the moment. The two servers are VMware hosts and the Freenas acts as a SAN via iSCSI protocol over the 10GB links.
Each physical connection is a separate sub-net.
The 2 x servers and the Freeness are also connected via a normal 1GB network for the normal VMware Management and vMotion traffic.
The problem is that the 1GB network is relatively slow for the vMotion traffic and I would prefer if the vMotion traffic can also flow over the 10GB links. However, because of the separate sub-nets, the two servers can only communicate via the 10GB links if I bridge the 10GB traffic in the Freeness box between the 10GB NIC's.
I have created a bridge in the Freeness box and added routes to the the servers, but the servers still can't reach each other.
My setup is as follows:
Server 1 Freenas
10.11.242.3 < ------------------------------> 10.11.242.2 (ql2)
static route
net 10.11.243.0/24 gw = 10.11.242.2
Server 2
10.11.243.3 <-----------------------------> 10.11.243.2 (ql3)
static route
net 10.11.242.0/24 gw = 10.11.243.2
In Freenas, I created the bridge as follows:
ifconfig bridge create
bridge0
ifconfig bridge0 add ql2 addm ql3 up
What am I doing wrong or don't I understand?
I have a Freenas system with 4 x 10GB NIC's that are connected point to point to to 2 servers, each server has 2 x 10GB NIC's. Reason for this is that I don't have a 10GB switch at the moment. The two servers are VMware hosts and the Freenas acts as a SAN via iSCSI protocol over the 10GB links.
Each physical connection is a separate sub-net.
The 2 x servers and the Freeness are also connected via a normal 1GB network for the normal VMware Management and vMotion traffic.
The problem is that the 1GB network is relatively slow for the vMotion traffic and I would prefer if the vMotion traffic can also flow over the 10GB links. However, because of the separate sub-nets, the two servers can only communicate via the 10GB links if I bridge the 10GB traffic in the Freeness box between the 10GB NIC's.
I have created a bridge in the Freeness box and added routes to the the servers, but the servers still can't reach each other.
My setup is as follows:
Server 1 Freenas
10.11.242.3 < ------------------------------> 10.11.242.2 (ql2)
static route
net 10.11.243.0/24 gw = 10.11.242.2
Server 2
10.11.243.3 <-----------------------------> 10.11.243.2 (ql3)
static route
net 10.11.242.0/24 gw = 10.11.243.2
In Freenas, I created the bridge as follows:
ifconfig bridge create
bridge0
ifconfig bridge0 add ql2 addm ql3 up
What am I doing wrong or don't I understand?