Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:06:59 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Faizan ul haq Muhammad <faizi62@hotmail.com> Cc: lists@jnielsen.net, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC Message-ID: <49A6E853.1030605@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <BLU149-W751827F7E010EAE528293DB6AD0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU149-W4690F7B871E6EB8BF6159B6AC0@phx.gbl> <200902251306.14765.lists@jnielsen.net> <BLU149-W748054287E4E4FA47DA500B6AC0@phx.gbl> <200902251515.47094.lists@jnielsen.net> <BLU149-W7768E70C67D57329B7E82EB6AD0@phx.gbl> <49A69E9C.2090807@ibctech.ca> <BLU149-W751827F7E010EAE528293DB6AD0@phx.gbl>
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Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: >> Which way do you go? > In this case I can take any of them Perhaps you will freeze in your tracks indefinitely due to confusion. Or perhaps you will go around the entire block a few times before making a decision ;) > Anyways,- Today i got some time to play around and i tried to configure > the machine as bridge. > I added device if_bridge to kernel > then i added the code to the rc.conf > > cloned_interfaces="bridge0" > ifconfig_bridge0="addm sk0 addm sk1 up" > ifconfig_sk0="up" > ifconfig_sk1="up" > now, i dun have any network address assigned to any of the interface and > connect the two lan cards to two other machines and try to ping those > machines from each other. but no success. Did the bridge interface actually come up? > ... do you think, this is as expected..? (i think bridge does not need > to have any IP address..) It depends. Are you doing any sort of firewalling? What is the IP addressing info on the two end hosts? Stevehome | help
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