em(4) VLAN + PROMISC still doesn't work with latest CVS version

[Iasen Kostov]

Iasen Kostov wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Kevin Day wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I recently upgraded to 5.3 on a system, and manually upgraded
>>> src/sys/dev/em/* to the latest RELENG_5 versions. (1.44.2.4 of 
>>> if_em.c)   
>>
>>
>> I'm able to reproduce problems using the below configuration is 6.x 
>> also,
>> and am investigating.  Thanks for the report, hope to get back to you
>> shortly with something concrete.
>>
>> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
>> robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee 
>> Research
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> While the VLAN side of things works better than the stock 5.3 version,
>>> there still is this problem:
>>>
>>> ifconfig vlan1 create
>>> ifconfig vlan1  vlan 1    vlandev em1 link0
>>> ifconfig vlan2 create
>>> ifconfig vlan2  vlan 2    vlandev em1 link0
>>> ifconfig vlan3 create
>>> ifconfig vlan3  vlan 3    vlandev em1 link0
>>>
>>> ifconfig vlan1 inet 192.aaa.bbb.129 netmask 255.255.255.0
>>> ifconfig vlan2 inet 64.ccc.ddd.61 netmask 255.255.255.192
>>> ifconfig vlan3 inet 64.eee.fff.61 netmask 255.255.255.192
>>>
>>> ifconfig em1 up
>>> ifconfig em1 promisc
>>>
>>> If I do this, vlan1 and vlan3 work fine. Vlan2 can receive packets, 
>>> but anything sent out vlan2 doesn't seem to be heard by any foreign 
>>> hosts. Setting "ifconfig em1 -promisc" makes all vlans work properly.
>>>
>>> This is better than the stock 5.3 version of em(4) where none of the 
>>> vlans worked, but something still isn't right.
>>>
>>> Is this a known problem still or am I just doing something wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
> Saddly I can just confirm that :(
>
>    regards
>
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    Is there an update on this case or I should find a way to disable 
all hw "things" in the driver ?:) (because things are getting hot here :).

    regards