I've changed nothing about my hyper-v setup. It stopped working immediately as I connected the new router and it worked just fine with the old router.

yes the IPs are coming from the router, hyper-v doesn't assign IPs just MACs. When I had them in DHCP the router assigned them and then I set them to reserved static IPs and the router assigned them IPs just fine. Aren't IPs assigned based on MAC address so the router can communicate via Layer 2 and assign a Layer 3 IP but for some reason can't find it.

What's weird is ONE of the my virtual IPs shows up in the routers ARP table with the correct associated MAC address even then it STILL can't ping it. I told you this thing is messed up.

I think the IP address conflicts are caused by a bug in the router.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're going to have multiple IP addresses resolving to a single MAC address, right? Perhaps this router either simply doesn't like that or possibly even has some rudimentary protection from ARP spoofing that is messing with your setup.

To be honest, I can't see how a VM host could ever be guaranteed to work with dynamically assigned IP addresses. Why not just give everything statics and be done with it?

 

I was using dhcp as an example of course my servers have static IPs. Hyper-v creates a virtual nic that has it's own Mac address that the router sees separate from the physical nic's Mac address but in the end it it still goes out over the same wire but the routerdoesnt know that.

 

So I ended up taking back the WRVS4400N a few months ago and got a Netgear WDRS3700 and it's a pretty great consumer router and the wifi range is slightly better than the Cisco rouer which was much better than my dlink. It's dual-band wifi if you care about that, you probably don't cause it requires a dual band wifi adapter which most people don't have and PCs don't come with but whatevs. It's rock solid and has had great performance.

However, over these past few months I've been missing the Cisco router, I surely didn't miss it's shitty quality but man did I miss it's features. So I was thinking we have this same router at work and we use it everyday and have never had an issue. We actually run a few clients RBS through this thing. So I said fuck it and went out and bought another one to give it another chance. I set it up and for the past 24hrs it's been rock solid. I only had one issue with Daylite client on OS X taking forever to sync with Daylite Server, but I fixed it by turning IPv6 of on the Client and now it works great.

So I guess I'll be selling my barely used Netgear WNDR3700 if someone wants it



It's amazing how good the wifi range is on that thing and it doesn't use any external antennas. I'll probably put it in the BM in a few days after I'm sure this Cisco isn't going to start sucking on me. But the last one started sucking within a few hours.

 

Oh and I fixed out the issue I was having with my hyper-v NIC, whatever it was it was fixed by uninstalling the NIC from the OS and reinstalling it so I guess it wasn't the router, it just went bad at the same time.

 

What's the difference between WDRS3700 and WNDR3700 or was that a typo? I have the WNDR3700 at home and it's pretty nice. You can put DD-WRT on it if you want more features.

 

typo....

 

I think I'm keeping this router, I only had a couple issues and they were fixed by changing some settings. So last night I set up my first VPN connection, it was pretty easy. I have a couple questions though. I was at my brothers house last night when I setup the connection and the VPN on my router at home wanted to know the exact WAN IP I'd be connecting from for that certain VPN tunnel. So I gave it my brothers IP address and it worked. Is it possible that I can login from any IP address without having to configure my router to work with it first? Basically I want to be able to login to my VPN from anywhere without remoting into my home router and configuring the VPN tunnel with my current IP, I just want to be able to login. I know the security potential with this but still is it possible?

Also for the Cisco VPN to work I have to use the Cisco QuickVPN client software to connect to my Cisco router. Even though it uses IPSec to connect which I thought was an industry standard. Is it possible to connect to my router while just using the VPN support that comes with Windows 7 or do I have to use this proprietary software?

Lastly, DNS support. I was able to RDP into my hyper-v server at home while I was at my brothers house via VPN by typing in it's local IP address. however I wasn't able to connect when I typed in it's Computer name which is Hyper-v, it only worked via IP. Is there way to make it work with the computer name? I had my Windows Remote Management (WinRM or RSAT) configured to connect via computer name and I had to jump into command line and edit it to work with IP.

Ok I keep thinking of more questions, this is my last one. What local IP does my PC get assigned when I connect via VPN? Does it get 192.168.0.1 of the router or one from the DHCP range?

 

Also I configured IPS on the router and installed the signature file and turned on reporting. So I've been checking the logs and found these results over the past 36hrs.




Should I assume that this is normal shit on the webs? And is there anything I can do to report these IPs? They mostly a bunch of Asian IPs and if you enter them into a web browser you get a pretty blank page with some Asian text, not sure which language but my guess is Chinese. I when I saw the Slammer worm, that's crazy that that thing is still floating around!

 

Sorry. That was all me. My bad.