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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:23:33PM -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> To whom it may concern.
> 
> I've been using qemu with the vde port [until recently, the qemu port is too
> far ahead of the vde one now] on an x86 machine with FreeBSD 6 and using
> if_bridge to connect the tap0 interface with xl0 with great success.
> 
> I tried to duplicate this configuration on a dual opteron machine that has
> Broadcom adapters and when I add the bge0 or bge1 interfaces to the bridge0
> iface that I create I lose all connectivity.  The moment I destroy the
> bridge0 interface, bge0 or bge1 as it may be begins responding again.
> 

The only thing the bridge does to the interface is put it in PROMISC
mode, can you try using tcpdump or similar to see if that is whats
causing the problem.


Andrew