From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 14:39:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1DF106564A for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:39:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161B28FC1B for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3D7046B38; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:39:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D0FBB8A009; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:39:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:33:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20101102; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <07255796.20101207031807@bitdefender.com> In-Reply-To: <07255796.20101207031807@bitdefender.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012070933.13710.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:39:57 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Mihai-Catalin Salgau Subject: Re: vlan limits on e1000? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:39:59 -0000 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