woodycollins wrote:
If I cancel out of the ping and attempt to restart the ping to the gateway it says destination host unreachable almost as if suddenly the vSwitch's arp table doesnt understand were to go to get to the gateway (only a guess at this point).
The vSwitch is only a layer two device and have no knowledge of the relation between IP and MAC. The MAC forwarding table is also quite easy, since it knows the MAC for all internal VMs and by that know that everything else is on the outside.
Are you using a Windows VM?
Could you run something like:
ipconfig
arp -d
ping GATEWAY
arp -a
Switch to Resource network pool
ping GATEWAY
arp -a
I wasnt aware that there should be any modifications to the packets when resource group allocation is set is there?
I would hope not. QoS yes, but for the host to simply start to prioritize packets flowing in / out the vswitch based on port i woudlnt think it would need to modify the data going through it outbound, or does it?
If setting any priority with the "QoS" on the Distributed vSwitch it must do some manipulation on the frames. The QoS information is carried in three bits called 802.1p, which is included inside the 4 Byte 802.1Q tag, which is added to each frame. I am thinking of writing some blog post about this in the near future.
I did also confirm myself that if setting the "QoS" to none will not do any manipulation of the frames.