In a data center environment with three security zones, tracing from an appserver in the middle zone to a db server in the inner zone (through an FWSM) gives results like:
From appserverA
Tracing route to dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.31.60.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
4 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
5 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
6 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms dbserver-42 [10.17.120.32]
Trace complete.
The IP config and route tables on both boxes look OK. Tracing from a different appserver to a different dbserver:
From appserverB
Tracing route to dbserver-41.domain.net [10.25.60.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.31.60.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-41.domain.net [10.25.60.41]
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-41.domain.net [10.25.60.41]
4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-41.domain.net [10.25.60.41]
5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dbserver-41.domain.net [10.25.60.41]
Trace complete.
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Any idea what might cause this, and whether it could be impacting performance of the tcp database connections between these servers?
Thanks!
Paul
