Howdy misc, I have an APU2 with the following configuration under 6.8:
em0 = WAN em1 = bridge0 LAN em2 = bridge0 LAN vether = 10.0.0.1 prometheus$ cat /etc/hostname.bridge0 add vether0 add em1 add em2 up prometheus$ cat /etc/hostname.vether0 inet 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.255 I have dhcpd listening on vether0 and it works just fine. I have a client connected to em1 and it can ping 10.0.0.1 with no issues. The trouble started when I wanted to implement a switch(4) instead of the bridge(4): I moved /etc/hostname.bridge0 to /etc/hostname.switch0 prometheus$ cat /etc/switchd.conf device "/dev/switch0" switchd was enabled via rcctl When I rebooted the system the client on em1 no longer got a dhcp response and can't ping 10.0.0.1 ifconfig snippet: switch0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> index 6 llprio 3 groups: switch datapath 0x264921d244b07e9a maxflow 10000 maxgroup 1000 vether0 flags=0<> port 7 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0 em1 flags=0<> port 2 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0 em2 flags=0<> port 3 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0 vether0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> \ mtu 1500 lladdr fe:e1:ba:d0:0b:ca index 7 priority 0 llprio 3 groups: vether media: Ethernet autoselect status: active inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 With tcpdump on vether0 I see the arp requests from the client for 10.0.0.1 but vether0 doesn't respond. I see the same arp traffic on switch0 and em1 via tcpdump too. The switch seems to have learned the mac address of the client: prometheus$ switchctl show macs Switch Port Type Name Info 1 2 mac f0:de:f1:23:13:37 age 3s Unfortunately, I don't really know how to dig any deeper at this issue. Does anyone here see a glaring mistake or would be able to nudge me in a better direction? Thanks, John