Dell compellent powerconnect

Bizzare !!

the out-of-band interface is how you are supposed to manage these switches.

while specifying the ip address you define the gateway the command goes

(config)#interface out-of-band

(config-if)#ip address 192.168.252.108 255.255.255.0 ?

Press enter to execute the command.
Enter the Gateway.





I was troubleshooting other subnets not able to ping to the out-of-band interface.

looking at the show run it looked perfectly ok.


the solution after a couple of hours was to put the ip address of the out-ofband interface without defining the gateway then putting the whole command !!

I could not believe my eyes !

(config-if)#ip address 192.168.252.108 255.255.255.0 192.168.252.1

(config-if)#ip address 192.168.252.108 255.255.255.0

(config-if)#ip address 192.168.252.108 255.255.255.0 192.168.252.1


and boom

Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé.
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=62
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=62
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps=4 ms TTL=62
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=62
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=62
Réponse de 192.168.252.108 : octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=62


one thing I found helpful before unclogging the pings is to see the if the switch receives the ICMP echo requests.


show ip traffic does that

show ip traffic


IpInReceives................................... 118177
IpInHdrErrors.................................. 0
IpInAddrErrors................................. 4423
IpForwDatagrams................................ 1412
IpInUnknownProtos.............................. 0
IpInDiscards................................... 0
IpInDelivers................................... 102766
IpOutRequests.................................. 7368
IpOutDiscards.................................. 0
IpOutNoRoutes.................................. 180
IpReasmTimeout................................. 60
IpReasmReqds................................... 0
IpReasmOKs..................................... 0
IpReasmFails................................... 0
IpFragOKs...................................... 1
IpFragFails.................................... 0
IpFragCreates.................................. 3
IpRoutingDiscards.............................. 0

IcmpInMsgs..................................... 176
IcmpInErrors................................... 0
--More-- or (q)uit
IcmpInDestUnreachs............................. 0
IcmpInTimeExcds................................ 0
IcmpInParmProbs................................ 0
IcmpInSrcQuenchs............................... 0
IcmpInRedirects................................ 0
IcmpInEchos.................................... 124 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
IcmpInEchoReps................................. 52


I hope this helps someone out there.

S