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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:52:26 +0200
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When is a switch not a switch?
Message-ID:  <723CA318-80E9-4A6B-91ED-E791A40CC2C0@punkt.de>
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A short P.S.

I just looked shortly into vm-bhyve. Whatever this tool does with respect to the "switches",
possibly just turning off all the hardware acceleration features for your network card can
solve your problems without further messing around with bridge(4) and friends.

What you need to configure depends on your hardware.
I made a table for the various interfaces we use at our place:

em:		-rxcsum -txcsum -lro -vlanmtu -vlanhwcsum -vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtag up
igb:		-rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up
ix:		-rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up
ixl:		-rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up
bnxt:	-rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso -vlanhwfilter up

HTH,
Patrick
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