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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:37:36 -0800
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working
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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