Comments on: Using Vyatta with VMware

By: Carlos' Corner » Simulating a more interesting environment with Vyatta and VMware ESXi – pt 2

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:29:20 +0000

[...] the HQ Site Network, the Remote Site Network and the intranet to DMZ network. (Note: This post has a more detailed description of the process I used to create Vyatta routers. [...]

By: Carlos' Corner » Simulating a more interesting environment with Vyatta and VMware ESXi

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:08:44 +0000

[...] routers to help create my virtual “enterprise” environment. I’ve talked about Vyatta before in this article. In this post I’ll talk a little about the process I went through to get to my final [...]

By: cars

cars — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:20:45 +0000

j.vapid’s issue seems to have been related to not having a static route to the hidden network. (192.168.2.X in the entry above). I may try to throw together an addendum on setting up a static route to test.
-cars

By: j.vapid

j.vapid — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:18:13 +0000

Could you share the trival mistake? I’m wondering if I’m making the same mistake.

I’ve been working on configuring the exact same scenario, the only difference is that I’m using Hyper-V instead of ESX. My virtual Vyatta router is not actually routing anything.

Thanks!

By: joshmachine28

joshmachine28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:54:45 +0000

Carlos, I really appreciate your swift response!. It does work. It was a trivial mistake on my part.

By: joshmachine28

joshmachine28 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:06:24 +0000

Hi Carlos,

I tried replicating your setup.

Is routing automatically enabled across interfaces within a single Vyatta instance? I did not add any specific routing rules between the two interfaces eth0 and eth1 of vy1.

I created two other Vyatta VMs (vy2 and vy3) and put then in vSwitch1 and vSwitch2. I specified the default gateways for vy2 and vy3 as vy1:eth0 and vy2:eth1 respectively.

However, pings from vy2 cannot reach vy3 or eth1 and vy3 cannot reach vy2 and eth0.

I haven’t enabled NAT or added any other routing rule.

What else am I supposed to do to get vy1 to route traffic between the two vSwitches??

Thanks!

By: redspoke

redspoke — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:24:29 +0000

Have you seen the GNS3 project?

Great tool for emulating cisco devices.

Drop me an email, i can explain my lab setup. I am doing some pretty similar stuff to what you are, for a good sized international company.

Love aquariums also….

Chris
redspoke@gmail.com