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Jonathan0410
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Jan 28, 2020

Troubleshooting connections to a node

Hi, I have a virtual server that a number of hosts connect to and can work successfully all day, however, there is one particular host that fails to connect.   From the CLI I can validate the w...
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Jonathan0410
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Jan 28, 2020

Hi and thanks for your reply. Yes I used the tcpdump utility, however, it displayed nothing on screen. I just ran tcpdump host <IP address> From the cli.

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cjunior
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Jan 28, 2020

I'm little confused now.

You couldn't see the client IP reaching VS address on any interface?

You should check current status and access permissions, vlan, etc to the specific client and node.

 

Anyway, this tcpdump may work to you see both client and server side communication filtering only by client IP:

 

tcpdump -vni 0.0:nnnp -s0 host <CLIENT IP>

 

I hope it helps.