Hi Carl, Proxy arp is not enabled (please see output below). eno1 and all other NICs are enabled, hence a ping that is intiated on the host itself will get responses, since the interface is up. It is just not linked up physically. I have also provided the output for ifconfig -a too. Thanks, -Uday [root@uday-compute1-node ~]# sudo find /proc/ -name proxy_arp -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/br-int/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/br-tun/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/brm/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eno1/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eno2/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp0s26f0u2/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp21s0f0/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp21s0f1/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp26s0f0/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp26s0f1/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp36s0f0/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp36s0f1/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ovs-system/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tapm/proxy_arp 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/vm1/proxy_arp 0 [root@uday-compute1-node ~]# ---------------------------- [root@uday-compute1-node ~]# ifconfig -a br-int: flags=4098 mtu 1500 ether 12:d9:cf:d4:1b:48 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 1184 bytes 88203 (86.1 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 br-tun: flags=4098 mtu 1500 ether b6:e0:86:6a:de:48 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 brm: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0 inet6 fe80::1455:36ff:fe1c:f0f5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 16:55:36:1c:f0:f5 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 18 bytes 1040 (1.0 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 26 bytes 2630 (2.5 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 eno1: flags=4099 mtu 1500 inet 200.200.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0 ether 34:40:b5:db:26:e8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 370660 bytes 26453130 (25.2 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 eno2: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 9.70.29.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 9.70.29.255 inet6 fe80::3640:b5ff:fedb:26ea prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 34:40:b5:db:26:ea txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 5772073 bytes 373584706 (356.2 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 9934 bytes 1361389 (1.2 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 enp0s26f0u2: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 6.6.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0 inet6 fe80::3440:b5ff:fedd:26eb prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 36:40:b5:dd:26:eb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 1708212 bytes 111195555 (106.0 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 40 bytes 6739 (6.5 KiB) TX errors 2 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 enp21s0f0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 1.1.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0 inet6 fe80::210:18ff:fe70:7eb0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 00:10:18:70:7e:b0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 62216509 bytes 19079148619 (17.7 GiB) RX errors 3233 dropped 0 overruns 3233 frame 0 TX packets 21703784 bytes 9701526279 (9.0 GiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 24 memory 0xa4000000-a47fffff enp21s0f1: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:18:70:7e:b2 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 34 memory 0xa4800000-a4ffffff enp26s0f0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:18:70:7e:b4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 26 memory 0x9e000000-9e7fffff enp26s0f1: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::210:18ff:fe70:7eb6 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 00:10:18:70:7e:b6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 34627293 bytes 2261979084 (2.1 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 29 bytes 4130 (4.0 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 25 memory 0x9e800000-9effffff enp36s0f0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:18:a5:7e:88 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 enp36s0f1: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:10:18:a5:7e:8a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 lo: flags=73 mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 22639688 bytes 1195001016 (1.1 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 22639688 bytes 1195001016 (1.1 GiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 ovs-system: flags=4098 mtu 1500 ether 4a:47:69:00:5e:9b txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 tapm: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 26:67:2f:ef:55:ec txqueuelen 500 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 vm1: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::1455:36ff:fe1c:f0f5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 16:55:36:1c:f0:f5 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 18 bytes 1292 (1.2 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 34 bytes 3278 (3.2 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 [root@uday-compute1-node ~]#