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Marc_57522
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHigh ping latency and loss of connection
I've installed the trial of LTM VE on ESXi 4.1 and, most of the time, it's working perfectly. Randomly, however, I lose connectivity to the LTM virtual machine and all nodes behind it. During this tim...
qe_102628Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus1) intermittent connectivity like this sounds like a duplicate MAC or IP address is present elsewhere within the layer2 infrastructure.
2) 10ms ping responses from the node generally indicate a slow node/polling driver. The fact that responses from the VE to the node are quick indicates this behavior. Are your nodes using E1000 NICS or other fully emulated NIC types? I've seen slow responses there.