Cannot reach host server

ChaiFox

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I've finally gotten around to setting up SNMP on my cisco server thats running proxmox but have found that neither the main pve nor none of the vm's that are running on it can actually ping the server. They can ping everything else on the network and everything else on the network can ping the cisco server so I know I'm probably just overlooking something dumb but I can't figure out what.

Cisco NIC is set to LOM extended and there is no FW set up between it and proxmox. When pinging the server it shows host unreachable and arp comes back as incomplete, after adding a static arp rule its like the ping is going into a black box as it shows no responses and just 100% loss.

Any help would be appreciated

Code:
root@pve:~# arp -a
bb.snoot (192.168.1.73) at da:2a:ac:85:05:eb [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.1) at e2:63:da:cf:2e:16 [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.45) at b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14 [ether] on vmbr0
nodered.snoot (192.168.1.75) at d2:62:9b:55:04:43 [ether] on vmbr0
root@pve:~# arp -n
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
192.168.1.73             ether   da:2a:ac:85:05:eb   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.1              ether   e2:63:da:cf:2e:16   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.45             ether   b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.75             ether   d2:62:9b:55:04:43   C                     vmbr0
root@pve:~# ping -c 4 192.168.1.250
PING 192.168.1.250 (192.168.1.250) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.197 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.197 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.197 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.197 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.1.250 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3057ms

root@pve:~# arp -a
? (192.168.1.250) at <incomplete> on vmbr0
bb.snoot (192.168.1.73) at da:2a:ac:85:05:eb [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.1) at e2:63:da:cf:2e:16 [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.45) at b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14 [ether] on vmbr0
nodered.snoot (192.168.1.75) at d2:62:9b:55:04:43 [ether] on vmbr0

root@pve:~# ping -c 4 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.189 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.189 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.188 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.124 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3086ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.124/0.172/0.189/0.028 ms

root@pve:~# arp -H ether -s 192.168.1.250 58:f3:9c:f7:bf:73 -i vmbr0
root@pve:~# arp -a
? (192.168.1.250) at 58:f3:9c:f7:bf:73 [ether] PERM on vmbr0
bb.snoot (192.168.1.73) at da:2a:ac:85:05:eb [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.1) at e2:63:da:cf:2e:16 [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.45) at b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14 [ether] on vmbr0
nodered.snoot (192.168.1.75) at d2:62:9b:55:04:43 [ether] on vmbr0
root@pve:~# arp -n
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
192.168.1.250            ether   58:f3:9c:f7:bf:73   CM                    vmbr0
192.168.1.73             ether   da:2a:ac:85:05:eb   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.1              ether   e2:63:da:cf:2e:16   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.45             ether   b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14   C                     vmbr0
192.168.1.75             ether   d2:62:9b:55:04:43   C                     vmbr0

root@pve:~# ping -c 4 192.168.1.250
PING 192.168.1.250 (192.168.1.250) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.250 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3079ms

Code:
root@pve:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface enp2s0f0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.197/24
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        bridge-ports enp2s0f0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface enp2s0f1 inet manual

iface enp2s0f2 inet manual

iface enp2s0f3 inet manual
root@pve:~# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.197 pve.localdomain pve

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
root@pve:~# arp -a
? (192.168.1.250) at <incomplete> on vmbr0
bb.snoot (192.168.1.73) at da:2a:ac:85:05:eb [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.1) at e2:63:da:cf:2e:16 [ether] on vmbr0
? (192.168.1.45) at b4:2e:99:a6:e4:14 [ether] on vmbr0
nodered.snoot (192.168.1.75) at d2:62:9b:55:04:43 [ether] on vmbr0