Hi,
I want to use 2 soekris as redundant bridge filter, but I have many
troubles.
I installed on soekris with 128 Mo SANDISK and a stock version of 3.8.
I modify the setup to have a readonly root, 2 mfs partitions (dev,
var), syslog to buffer and to remote loghost. Everything runs nice.
Every servers I have have at least 2 nics.
I connect each server to 2 switchs, and the switchs together.
And for the moment only one switch has an uplink to my provider.
I will have (soon) a second link to the second switch.
I want to test the soekris as a bridge with 3 links: one to my
provider, one to each switch.
I start the test by setting a bridge on 2 nics of the soekris
connected to the 2 switchs. So now there is a loop between the
switchs and the soekris.
And the first problem appears. If I ping from any computers on the
segment to anything else I get a "storm" of thousand packet/seconds
until I unplug a cable from the loop.
So I test with/without STP, link0: no more luke.
Second part of the test, I set up a bridgename.bridge0 file with the
2 nics up with STP, and I restart the soekris. Few seconds after the
end of the boot (login prompt) immediate reboot of the soekris.
I stop it by, as soon as login prompt appears, to log in and put down
the bridge.
In fact, each time all the cables is connected to have a loop, in the
15 seconds I put up the bridge the box reboots (may be the same delay
as to start forwarding packet). But if I put up the bridge with only
one cable and put the second ones after not much problems.
In fact sometimes when there is a big storm the soekris reboots too.
I add asked Henning at EuroBSDCon'2005 about this, and he says to me
that if I could avoid this setup (bridge) and use a router: this is
the way to go.
OK. But My provider gives me a block of 256 IPs with two gateways and
before asking him for something else I would like to know what I can do.
May be the new coming version 3.9 have some new stuff. I do not know.
Any help to have a running setup is welcomed, and to debug the
unexpected reboot.
Cordialement,
Jean-Girard Pailloncy
