lagg interface doesn't work
Eugene Grosbein
eugen at grosbein.net
Thu Oct 5 08:53:53 UTC 2017
On 05.10.2017 15:36, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote:
>> Promiscuous mode may disable hardware vlan processing and switch to
>> software processing temporary.
>> It seems bxe(4) driver may have issues with hardware vlan processing.
>> Please show output of "ifconfig bxe0" command.
>
>
> bxe0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric
> 0 mtu 9170
> options=527bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
> ether 2c:44:fd:8e:0a:68
> hwaddr 2c:44:fd:8e:0a:68
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
> status: active
>
>
>> You should try to disable hardware vlan processing with "ifconfig bxe0
>> -vlanhwtag" and repeat your tests.
>> If it helps, you could replace ifconfig_bxe0="up" with
>> ifconfig_bxe0="-vlanhwtag"
>> as temporary workaround and raise a problem report against bxe(4)
>> driver.
>
>
> (server-prod </root>) 0 # ifconfig bxe0 -vlanhwtag
> ifconfig: -vlanhwtag: Invalid argument
It seems bxe(4) driver does not allow voluntary disable of vlanhwtag.
Anyway, your problem seems to be hardware-dependent as lagg/LACP works just
fine with Intel cards, for example.
Also, you have not specified FreeBSD version you use.
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