Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:37:36 -0800 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working Message-ID: <3e1162e60601061737j70c0e594o2fe0adc00a5f6b65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107013627.GA82454@heff.fud.org.nz> References: <3e1162e60601061523k742d46cdreade7fb276232f13@mail.gmail.com> <20060107013627.GA82454@heff.fud.org.nz>
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On 1/6/06, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 i= s too > > far ahead of the vde one now] on an x86 machine with FreeBSD 6 and usin= g > > 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 bri= dge0 > > 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 > Thanks for the tip... I'll give it a shot and see what's going on. Dave
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