On 12/02/2011 12:21 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
Roland Pinches <rolypoly@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
We've run into a problem with our freeradius server virtual machine. It's a RHEL5.5 VM running on ESXi 4.1 and it talks to a cisco NAS. It currently works but we have performance issues, which I have partly tracked down to a very specific VMware issue - if running linux with more than 1 vCPU, vmxnet3 NIC connected to a distributed vSwitch. The work around is to change the network adapters to something other than a vmxnet3 adapter. However, this is where my radius problem comes in. When I change the NICs, the MAC address changes, which means I need to setup the static IP addresses again. Not a problem and I can then ping the cisco device and the cisco device can ping the radius server. The problem is, no radius traffic flows between them. You can override the generated MAC. Try putting in the one fromt the vmxnet3 NIC and see what happens.
Grüße, Sven.
I tried that, but it won't let me take the previous mac address since it's outside the range VMware allows you to allocate (it comes up with a message saying it outside the range allowed). Roly.