Bridge forward detection bug in 11.1-RELEASE?

[Kristof Provost]

On 30 Jul 2017, at 22:19, Heikki Paatela wrote:
> I was having kernel panics with 10.2-RELEASE earlier, caused by
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202351. It would 
> seem
> that some change that has happened between 11.0 and 11.1 has 
> introduced a
> similar problem.
>
> The patch fixed the issue for me with 10-stable, and I installed
> 11.0-RELEASE via freebsd-update and had everything running nicely. 
> Last
> week I updated to 11.1-RELEASE via freebsd-update, and started to 
> again
> experience problems, where my bridge would stop forwarding traffic if 
> my
> AirPort Extreme -base station was connected. This time I'm not 
> experiencing
> kernel panics, and I'm not seeing anything peculiar in the log files. 
> The
> bridge is headless computer, so I haven't been able to check if it's
> otherwise usable, when it stops forwarding traffic.
>
> I didn't report this on bugzilla, as I don't really think I have 
> enough
> details on the matter. I have since downgraded back to 11.0-RELEASE, 
> where
> everything is again working flawlessly.
>
I’m not aware of relevant changes between 11.0 and 11.1.

The closes I can see is the fix for PR 217883, but I’d be surprised if 
that’s the problem.

It’d be useful if you could provide more details on your 
configuration, and if you could check if you’re seeing kernel panics.

Regards,
Kristof