Re: Suddenly unable to access VMs

From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:23:16 UTC
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:49 PM Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > My bhyve VMs have been all fine until now.
> > I can't ping them and can't SSH into them. However, I can connect to them
> > with VNCViewer from a remote host (my PC from my house) :-(
> >
> > I haven't done any changes on the host at all.
> > dnsmasq is running, but seems like the VMs aren't getting the IPs for
> some
> > reason.
> >
> > ```
> > cloned_interfaces="bridge0 tap0 tap1 tap2 tap3 tap4 tap5"
> > ifconfig_bridge0_name="vmbridge"
> > ifconfig_vmbridge="addm em1 addm tap0 addm tap1 addm tap2 addm tap3 addm
> > tap4 addm tap5 up"
> > ifconfig_vmbridge_alias0="inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > ```
> > What might have happened?
> >
> >
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ifconfig vmbridge
> > vmbridge: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP>
> > metric 0 mtu 1500
> >         options=0
> >         ether 58:9c:fc:10:df:1d
> >         inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
> >         id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
> >         maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
> >         root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
> >         member: tap5 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 10 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: tap4 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 9 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: tap3 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 8 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: tap2 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 7 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: tap1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000000
> >         member: em1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
> >                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 55
> >         groups: bridge
> >         nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ssh 172.16.0.99
> > ssh: connect to host 172.16.0.99 port 22: Permission denied
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ssh 172.16.0.100
> > ssh: connect to host 172.16.0.100 port 22: Permission denied
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ping 172.16.0.100
> > PING 172.16.0.100 (172.16.0.100): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ^C
> > --- 172.16.0.100 ping statistics ---
> > 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
> > root@gw:/home/wash # ping 172.16.0.99
> > PING 172.16.0.99 (172.16.0.99): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
> > ^C
> > --- 172.16.0.99 ping statistics ---
> > 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
> > root@gw:/home/wash # service dnsmasq status
> > dnsmasq is running as pid 4190.
> > root@gw:/home/wash #
>
> Permission denied is almost certainly coming from firewall,
> either ipfw or pf.
>

I haven't changed anything in my pf.conf either.
What also baffles me is that the VMs are not obtaining IP addresses from
dnsmasq.


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Best regards,
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Nairobi,KE
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