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

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