Re: what to check? no IPV6 pings between nodes on the same switch

Setting the IPv4 makes it works indeed! How did you find it? I will open a ticket about it. 

Thanks a lot to both of you anyway :)


Benoît

------- Original Message -------
On Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 13:01, Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> wrote:


> 
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:07:54 +0000
> Benoit Chesneau benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu wrote:
> 
> > So I noticed that tcpdump was enabling the "promiscuous" mode to the
> > interface. So I tried to do it manually: `ifconfig ql0 promisc` and
> > ping worked even after disabling this mode `ifconfig ql0 -promisc`.
> > 
> > What does happen when the promiscuous mode is enabled? I'm not sure
> > to understand what is the issue :/
> 
> 
> Does giving the interface also an IPv4 address make a
> difference, e.g. ifconfig_ql0="inet 10.0.0.1/24"?
> 
> Best
> Michael
> 
> --
> Michael Gmelin