On Tuesday 30 November 2004 22:17, Mike Wolman wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem with 5.3 release with pf, vlans and the em device. <...> > I have had a hunt on the lists and found: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-net&m=110172867801777&w=2
From what I know about this problem, it is possible that trying to analyze to problem creates the problem in the first place. i.e. if you tcpdump on the em-card (or the vlan for the same reason) it will screw up the vlan hardware support. A fix has been committed, but it might be the case that the fix wasn't 100% correct (esp. when there are 3+ vlans on the interface). Is is possible that you switched to dhcp for these boxes? If you run dhclient on em0 it will open a bpf-socket which seems to be the root of the em+vlan troubles. I doubt that pf plays a part in this game. > I am not sure if this is related but suspect it is - if so will adding a > different card from a different vendor fix this? (the machine is at a > remote location but if this will fix the problem off i go) Using a card w/o hardware supported vlan tagging might help, but you obviously lose the benefit. I am not sure if you can turn off the h/w-support on the em-card, but that's sure worth a try. Tell us if it helpped. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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