Forwarding w/o promisc on 6.4

[Jon Otterholm]

On 2009-04-19 11.14, "Robert Watson" <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Jon Otterholm wrote:
> 
>> I have a router running 6.4R that does not forward packets if I disable
>> PROMISC on the interface. Hardware is a Dell PE with two Intel 82541EI
>> chipsets (if_em). I have a number (~100) of vlan-interfaces on em0.
>> Everything works as aexpected if I turn on PROMISC on em0 but forwarding
>> stops if I disable it, I can still communicate with the router directly on
>> the same logical network (for example pinging interface adress on a vlan_if
>> from a client on that vlan) but all forwarding stops.
> 
> Try disabling hardware VLAN taggging/processing?  I believe you should be able
> to do this with "ifconfig em0 -vlanhwtag" (substituting appropriate interface
> names).  It could be there's a bug in how hardware-optimized tag handling is
> being managed, as when promiscuous mode is used we re-insert vlan headers in
> software for the benefits of BPF.

I tried doing this without any luck. Running GENERIC kernconf.


//JO

> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
> 
>> 
>> Some info:
>> net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
>> net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 0 (enableing this does not help)
>> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
>> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576
>> kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
>> 
>> I use PF for filtering and disableing this does not help either.
>> 
>> Anyone with a clue?
>> 
>> //JO
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