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VMware NSX Cookbook
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VMware NSX Cookbook

by Bayu Wibowo, Tony Sangha
March 2018
Beginner
584 pages
14h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing VXLAN VTEP VMkernel

To verify MTU and connectivity between VTEPs, use vmkping from an ESXi host console session. VTEP VMkernel is provisioned in a dedicated TCP/IP stack name, vxlan. To specify a TCP/IP stack on a vmkping, you can use either of the following formats:

vmkping ++netstack=vxlan <destination VTEP IP address> -d -s <packet size>  

Or:

vmkping -S vxlan <destination VTEP IP address> -d -s <packet size>  

The following are the command arguments:

  • -d: Sets the DF (do not fragment) bit on IPv4 packets
  • -S or ++netstack=: TCP/IP stack
  • -s <packet size>: Sets the number of ICMP data bytes
  • -I: Outgoing VMkernel interface

Ping the VTEP VMkernel using the packet size 1572 and the packet size 1472. If there is an MTU mismatch on vDS ...

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