hi jon

tx for replying: )

I know it looks inconsistent.

IP addresses and gateways of PC A and B were not assigned for this design. (I havent changed old IPs yet). I just put them on different VLANs and see if VLAN really works.

but all active devices in figure are configured as they are shown in the figure.

Pal they are in the same IP network but they are in the different VLANs on multilayer switch. (PC A: VLAN A port of switch, PC B: VLAN B port of the switch) therefore they shouldnt ping each other should they?

I dont get it HELP! :)

tx for helping

that's weird...

maybe a different workstation is responding. hehehehe...

hi john,

tx for replying.

I have completely disabled HSRP.

No HSRP is working on any switch, no standby ip. everything is just like shown in the figure. and still PC A (in VLAN A) pings PC B (in VLAN B).

under this conditions;

while PCs are in different VLANs they shouldnt ping each other even if they are in the same subnet. or am I wrong?

tx for helping

Hi Alfonzo

You have rated the post - does that mean that you have solved the problem ???

Jon

Hi

What type of L3 switch are you using ?

Does the old default gateway address still exist on the switch.

What should happen in your setup is this

1) PC A wants to talk to PC B.

2) PC A compares PC B's ip address with its own netmask.

3) In this instance PC A determines that PC is on the SAME network and so arps out for PC B's address. It does not try and route to PC B.

You say your pc's are dual honed. Can you check that both connections are in the correct vlans.

The other thing that occurs is proxy arp but i need to do a bit more reading as i haven't looked at that for a long time and it might not be relevant.

HTH

Jon

Sorry for that reply awhile ago. I was on the phone talking to someone else and didn't read the whole situation. Hehehe!

That's kinda weird, have you checked the subnet mask of the L3 switch? Check it. Cause ip proxy-arp might be enabled.

The L3 switch can respond to that kind of situation of ip proxy-arp is enabled.

You can check it this way, check the mac address of the pc in vlan a and the pc in vlan b. Use the arp -a (windows command) to see if the ip address of vlan b pc really corresponds to vlan b's mac address (check it by ipconfig /all)

Coz if the mac-address of the vlan b pc is the mac-address of the router then proxy arp worked.

perhaps you mean netmask of the native vlan(vlan 1)

I ll check it

you guys r right proxy-arp is the only logical explanation I guess.

I ll give it a try

jon

switch is brand new and it has enhanced IOS with all routing protocols

Alfonzo,

Any chance of seeing the config of each device? what springs to mind immediately is that the devices have all ended up in the same broadcast domain, throuogh some inadvertant misconfiguration.

Thanks

Tony

hi tony

I have changed the subnet mask of native vlan on multilayer switches and problem has disappeared, I am ont sure how. perhaps proxy arp

tx for your interest