From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 10 14:37:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D123737B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13j7GJ-00008p-00; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:48:39 -0600 Message-ID: <39E38EB6.DD37A815@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:48:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Brown Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp problems with foundry networks serveriron References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a FreeBSD 3.4 server running apache which I am trying to > loadbalance. > > I have hit a problem with ARP. > > My loadbalancer is sending an arp request to the bsd box which is not > responding. This is being send inside an IEE 802.1q vlan packet. > > This includes an extra 4 bytes of data which offset's the arp flags > further into the packet. > > If I turn off the vlan the loadbalancer produces normal Ethernet II arp > requests and the BSD web server responds without a problem. > > Can anyone explain why an 802.1q ARP request is rejected by the BSD box??? Because you don't have VLAN enabled on the BSD network interface??? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message