I am working in a network environnement where I have some Cisco Switch WS-C3560X-48 and Linux Servers running CentOS 7.7.
The linux servers are connected 3 times on my switches : one admin link, one production link and one ILO link because they are running on HP hardware.
When I try to ping the servers on the admin LAN from my Cisco switch, I get the following result :
SWTCisco#ping 10.123.213.152 source 10.123.213.158 repeat 100
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 100, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.123.213.152, timeout is 2 seconds:
Packet sent with a source address of 10.123.213.158
!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.
!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!!!!!.!!
Success rate is 86 percent (86/100), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/3/17 ms
As you can see, I have a pattern, I always lose a packet on the 7th ping. On server side, I can see with tcpdump that the icmp request is received but the icmp reply is not sent. On the exemple below, I pingued 8 times the server and we can see 2 request following each other.
root@CentOSserver:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# tcpdump -i eno1 host 10.123.213.158 -nn
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eno1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
11:37:04.770292 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 0, length 80
11:37:04.770354 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 0, length 80
11:37:04.772624 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 1, length 80
11:37:04.772644 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 1, length 80
11:37:04.774394 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 2, length 80
11:37:04.774411 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 2, length 80
11:37:04.776592 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 3, length 80
11:37:04.776606 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 3, length 80
11:37:04.789083 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 4, length 80
11:37:04.789099 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 4, length 80
11:37:04.791466 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 5, length 80
11:37:04.791483 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 5, length 80
11:37:04.793669 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 6, length 80
11:37:04.822159 ARP, Request who-has 10.123.213.158 tell 10.123.213.144, length 46
11:37:06.793024 IP 10.123.213.158 > 10.123.213.152: ICMP echo request, id 134, seq 7, length 80
11:37:06.793068 IP 10.123.213.152 > 10.123.213.158: ICMP echo reply, id 134, seq 7, length 80
10.123.213.158 is the address of the vlan on my Cisco Switch
10.123.213.152 is the address of the eno1 on the Linux Server
10.123.213.144 is the ILO adress of another server doing an arp request while my tcpdump was running.
After new investigation, I found that the problem is related to spanning-tree. I hosted a pcap of what I found.
https://filebin.net/9x9ech3uude93sda
In the pcap, we can see that there is a STP packet between the 2 icmp request. I tried several time and each time, a STP packet is where I should have found my reply.
To me, it's just a bpdu message and should not have any impact on my interface GigabitEthernet0/27.
Nothing particulary alarming (to me)is visible on the spanning tree configuration on the cisco :
SWTCisco#sh spanning-tree vlan 28
VLAN0028
Spanning tree enabled protocol ieee
Root ID Priority 32796
Address 501c.bf45.1c00
This bridge is the root
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Bridge ID Priority 32796 (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 28)
Address 501c.bf45.1c00
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Aging Time 300 sec
Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
------------------- ---- --- --------- -------- --------------------------------
Gi0/11 Desg FWD 4 128.11 P2p
Gi0/18 Desg FWD 4 128.18 P2p
Gi0/19 Desg FWD 4 128.19 P2p
Gi0/20 Desg FWD 4 128.20 P2p
Gi0/21 Desg FWD 19 128.21 P2p
Gi0/22 Desg FWD 4 128.22 P2p
Gi0/23 Desg FWD 4 128.23 P2p
Gi0/24 Desg FWD 4 128.24 P2p
Gi0/25 Desg FWD 4 128.25 P2p
Gi0/26 Desg FWD 4 128.26 P2p
Gi0/27 Desg FWD 4 128.27 P2p
Gi0/31 Desg FWD 4 128.31 P2p
Gi0/32 Desg FWD 19 128.32 P2p
Gi0/33 Desg FWD 4 128.33 P2p
Gi0/34 Desg FWD 4 128.34 P2p
Gi0/35 Desg FWD 4 128.35 P2p
Gi0/36 Desg FWD 4 128.36 P2p
Gi0/37 Desg FWD 4 128.37 P2p
Gi0/38 Desg FWD 4 128.38 P2p
Gi0/39 Desg FWD 4 128.39 P2p
Gi0/40 Desg FWD 4 128.40 P2p
Gi0/47 Desg FWD 19 128.47 P2p
Gi1/3 Desg FWD 4 128.51 P2p
SWTCisco#sh run int gigabitEthernet 0/27
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 113 bytes
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/27
switchport access vlan 28
switchport mode access
end
SWTCisco#sh spanning-tree blockedports
Name Blocked Interfaces List
-------------------- ------------------------------------
Number of blocked ports (segments) in the system : 0
SWTCisco#sh spanning-tree summary
Switch is in pvst mode
Root bridge for: VLAN0028, VLAN0031, VLAN3715
EtherChannel misconfig guard is enabled
Extended system ID is enabled
Portfast Default is disabled
PortFast BPDU Guard Default is disabled
Portfast BPDU Filter Default is disabled
Loopguard Default is disabled
UplinkFast is disabled
BackboneFast is disabled
Configured Pathcost method used is short
Name Blocking Listening Learning Forwarding STP Active
---------------------- -------- --------- -------- ---------- ----------
VLAN0028 0 0 0 23 23
VLAN0031 0 0 0 12 12
VLAN0157 0 0 0 1 1
VLAN3715 0 0 0 1 1
---------------------- -------- --------- -------- ---------- ----------
4 vlans 0 0 0 37 37
SWTCisco#sh version | in RELEASE
Cisco IOS Software, C3560E Software (C3560E-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 12.2(55)SE5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
BOOTLDR: C3560E Boot Loader (C3560X-HBOOT-M) Version 12.2(53r)SE1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
I watched my interface Gi0/27 while the ping is active and the interface stay in FWD state.
Does anyone have any idea why I lose a packet while the switch is sending a bdpu frame ? I have some troubles understanding some advanced stp functionnality so I may be missing something here.
