Workaround for mpd5 and 8.0 broken proxy arp?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 31 11:35:11 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:25:48PM -0700, Li, Qing wrote:
> > Yes, it's still broken (it's a regression compared to 7.x).  A
> > workaround I've found working after analyzing the newer kernel
> > code is to ALWAYS use the same IP address for the local end of
> > the tunnel as of the corresponding ARP capable interface.
> > 
> 
>    Are you using VLANs?

Yes, we do.

>    Were you getting the following error message?
>    "cannot intuit interface index and type for x.x.x.x"
> 
>    Could you please revert back to your original configuration
>    and give the following patch try (in addition to the patches
>    mentioned by Mike) ?
> 
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/mpd-patch.diff

I'll give it a try in the next few days, and let you know.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
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