I was hoping someone out there would be able to look at this and let me know what I have missed. I have 4 machines and for some reason, only 1 of them can talk to the other 3 via their private IP address (on eth1).
The 4 machines are:
mach01 10.176.193.17
mach02 10.176.193.92
mach03 10.176.193.27
mach04 10.176.195.9
All of the machines are Debian lenny. From mach02, I can ping the other 3 machines no problem, and from the other machines, I can ping mach02. However, from mach01, mach03 and mach04 I can only ping mach02.
The results from "iptables --list" on all machines is:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
So I do not believe there is a firewall issue. The routing tables for eth1 on all machines is:
10.176.192.0 * 255.255.224.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.191.192.0 10.176.192.1 255.255.192.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
10.176.0.0 10.176.192.1 255.248.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
So that looks fine as well. For some reason, ARP requests are failing from mach03 to anywhere other than mach02, and similarly for other machines.
mach03$ arping -c 1 -I eth1 10.176.193.17
ARPING 10.176.193.17
--- 10.176.193.17 statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% unanswered
I do not see any reason why ARP would fail like this, and have run out of ideas and places to look. Does anyone else with more experience in troubleshooting networking have any ideas?
Thanks
EDIT
After trying to ping mach01 from mach03, the following is in the ARP cache:
$ arp -a
? (10.176.193.17) aton eth1
? (67.23.45.1) at 00:00:0C:07:AC:01 [ether] on eth0
And the other way around (so from mach03 to mach01):
? (10.176.193.92) at 40:40:FA:77:D7:94 [ether] on eth1
? (10.176.193.27) aton eth1
? (67.23.45.1) at 00:00:0C:07:AC:01 [ether] on eth0
And more details on eth1:
$ ip addr show dev eth1
3: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 40:40:16:e0:f3:dd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.176.193.17/19 brd 10.176.223.255 scope global eth1
inet6 fe80::4240:16ff:fee0:f3dd/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Answer
It turns out I discovered an issue with Rackspace Cloud Server's networking. The issue was escalated and has been resolved.
I would like to thank everyone who responded.
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