flood with ng_bridge

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 13 07:52:59 PDT 2005


  Donatas,

[moving discussion to freebsd-net]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:16:29AM +0300, Donatas wrote:
D> can you check flood.gif?(it's denied to send gif's to this conference)
D> ftp://temp:temp@217.9.241.242/flood.gif

Already unavailable. :|

D> for unknown reasons ng_bridge seems to be working like ng_hub and is 
D> flooding network even after establishing session between two mac addresses.

Can you reproduce this and obtain forwarding table?

ngctl msg bridge: gettable

D> using kernel bridge instead of ng_bridge solves the problem, but on heavy
D> network loads "unknown" packets apear in random directions (this does not
D> happed using ng_bridge or ng_hub)
D> 
D> os used - only FreeBSD5.3

P.S. Next time please use freebsd-net list for such questions.

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