Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:33:13 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Mihai-Catalin Salgau <csalgau-br@bitdefender.com> Subject: Re: vlan limits on e1000? Message-ID: <201012070933.13710.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <07255796.20101207031807@bitdefender.com> References: <07255796.20101207031807@bitdefender.com>
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On Monday, December 06, 2010 8:18:07 pm Mihai-Catalin Salgau wrote: > Hello Freebsd-net, > > I have two dual port NICs, one Broadcom(bce0,bce1) and one Intel(em0,em1), on FreeBSD 8-stable > (about two weeks old) with a DHCP server running. > I've been successfully using a large number of vlans over bce1,em0 and em1 with iSCSI, > but wanted to switch to AoE(ata over ethernet). I've set vlandevs by round-robin, and got > vlan1 on bce0, vlan2 on em0, vlan3 on em1, vlan4 on bce0....vlan12 on em1. I've binded > net/vblade instances to each interface, but the problem I'm facing now is that while > vlans 1-10 are working properly, vlans 11 and 12 won't see any traffic unless the interface is > in promiscuous mode. I noticed that while trying to attach tcpdump and saw the thing instantly work. > I've had no problems with iSCSI over the same setup, and dhcp packets are getting trough properly. > I've moved those last two vlans to bce0 and they work ok, but I'm a bit locked on why this is happening. > Are there any known limitations on vlans on e1000? Are you using the 'vlanhwfilter' feature? -- John Baldwin
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