this is a bug in the vr driver it's fixed in the current freebsd vr driver which people are attempting to port over
Manuel Heckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I experience some strange network behaviour. My setup is as following: > * ALIX 2c3 hardware, connected to an adsl modem on vr2, pppoe/nat/pf > * internal lan, 10.1.0.0/16 (dhcp on the alix) via switch connected to vr0 > of the alix > > This all works perfectly great, with one exception: sometimes (I can't > figure out any regularity, about one to five times a month) I loose my LAN > network connection. The adsl connection still works, I can ping the world. > But my internal LAN connection is dead. My Notebook doesn't get an IP > adress, a dump with tcpdump shows nothing but the traffic generated by my > notebook (mostly arp). The same on the ALIX, nothing but its own traffic. I > can solve this by doing a: > * ifconfig vr0 down > * ifconfig vr0 up > and everthing works fine again. > > Does anybody have a hint on whats going on here? What should I look for? > > Thank you all, regards, > Manuel -- "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." -- John McCain