Hello,
I have a Linux VM (RHEL 7.9) running on VMware. When I am pinging one of the gateway device (192.168.19.1), it is intermittently failing to ping. It looks like someone cloned the VM or something is conflicting.
Code:
[root@rhel-client /]# ping 192.168.19.1
PING 192.168.19.1 (192.168.19.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
....
....
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
64 bytes from 192.168.19.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.10 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.19.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.261 ms
....
....
64 bytes from 192.168.19.1: icmp_seq=38 ttl=64 time=0.384 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.19.1: icmp_seq=39 ttl=64 time=0.347 ms
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=51 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=52 Destination Host Unreachable
....
....
From 192.168.19.62 icmp_seq=62 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 192.168.19.1 ping statistics ---
64 packets transmitted, 16 received, +18 errors, 75% packet loss, time 63006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.261/0.390/1.105/0.190 ms, pipe 4
[root@rhel-client /]#
[root@rhel-client /]# for i in `cat /tmp/nics`; do echo $i; ifconfig $i | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}';echo "------------------------"; done
ens161
192.168.19.160
------------------------
ens192
192.168.240.8
------------------------
ens193
216.221.133.236
------------------------
ens224
192.168.245.244
------------------------
ens256
192.168.19.62
------------------------
[root@rhel-client /]# netstat -nr | grep "192.168.19.1 "
192.168.19.0 192.168.19.1 255.255.255.128 UG 0 0 0 ens256
[root@rhel-client /]#
[root@rhel-client /]# cat proc/net/arp | egrep "192.168.19.1 "
192.168.19.1 0x1 0x0 00:10:db:ff:e1:01 * ens256
[root@rhel-client /]#
From this server side, is there anything else I should be trying?
Thanks