RE: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Peter Blok
Mike, et al. I had the panic too. The problem is the order of initialization. It only happened when you compile NETGRAPH support in the kernel instead of using it as a module. When initialize netgraph a little bit later it works fine. In netgraph.h there is a macro called NETGRAPH_INIT. I have ch

Re: Gratuitous ARP (summary)

2001-08-28 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > It's not clear what Jushua is asking for, but my guess is proxy arp. > See arp(8), in particular the -s flag. Then I will clarify and say that what I want is precisely described in section 4.7 of TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1 (Stevens) and looks like

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Disagree. Packet is either a runt or not a runt. It cannot be > > inconsistently bridged it to one (trunk) interface but not to (access) > > interface. > > Runt-ness is not a property of the contents of the frame, it's a > property of

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Also, who is the VLAN maintainer these days ? I think that code has a ``sticky hat'', so whoever last touched it is ``it''. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:54 PM 8/28/01 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< said: > > > Can anyone tell me why the VLAN code might be causing my switches (ciscos) > > to see a lot of runt frames when the interface is in 802.1q trunking > mode ? > >It's possible that the Cisco is (bogusly, IMHO) trying to enforce the >E

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Disagree. Packet is either a runt or not a runt. It cannot be > inconsistently bridged it to one (trunk) interface but not to (access) > interface. Runt-ness is not a property of the contents of the frame, it's a property of the wire the frame is sent on. A frame bridged from another

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > But doesn't the switch have to assume that the VLAN will be attached to > > some non-trunked ports, in which case the packets must be an appropriate > > length. > > The minimum length needs to be enforced at the output interface. > (A

Re: Gratuitous ARP

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Glanfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Goodall) writes: > Easy question time, but I can't find it documented. How can I reliably > (and non-destructively) trigger the sending of a single gratuitous ARP > reply for some local IP/MAC address? arping (from ports) and ping the broadcast address. Terry. To Unsu

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > But doesn't the switch have to assume that the VLAN will be attached to > some non-trunked ports, in which case the packets must be an appropriate > length. The minimum length needs to be enforced at the output interface. (A switch would need to do so anyway for locally-generated packe

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:54:18PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Can anyone tell me why the VLAN code might be causing my switches (ciscos) > > to see a lot of runt frames when the interface is in 802.1q trunking mode ? > > It's possible that the Cisco is (bogusly, IMHO) trying

mpd-netgraph on minimal install not working.

2001-08-28 Thread Peter Brezny
I've not been able to get mpd-netgraph to work as a PPTP VPN server on a minimal freebsd 4.3-Release install. A minimal install with mpd 3.2 installed from the packages appears to work fine when configured. no errors in log files etc, however, nmap of the machine doesn't even show port 1723 as b

Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Can anyone tell me why the VLAN code might be causing my switches (ciscos) > to see a lot of runt frames when the interface is in 802.1q trunking mode ? It's possible that the Cisco is (bogusly, IMHO) trying to enforce the Ethernet minimum frame length on the *de*capsulated frames.

Re: Gratuitous ARP

2001-08-28 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
It's not clear what Jushua is asking for, but my guess is proxy arp. See arp(8), in particular the -s flag. -Mitch On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:47:20PM +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > > > Easy question time, but I can't find it documented. How can

Re: Gratuitous ARP

2001-08-28 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:47:20PM +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > Easy question time, but I can't find it documented. How can I reliably > (and non-destructively) trigger the sending of a single gratuitous ARP > reply for some local IP/MAC address? > Under "local", do you mean the IP assigned

Re:

2001-08-28 Thread Anastasia Leventi-Peetz
nice to ask itojun, thank you. I wish to establish a configured SIT tunnel between a Linux box and a FreeBSD box. (host to host only) By the tunnel configuration on Linux side i give ifconfig sit0 tunnel ::IPv4-Address on the FreeBSD side. Automatically appears in the Linux routing table the fe8

Re:

2001-08-28 Thread itojun
>yes itojun, you are right with your remark, on the other side I don't >see by all available RFC's about tunneling IPv6 over IPv4, how >can somebody perform it, without such a Link Local Address! >(In this sense it is very relevant what JINMEI, Tatuya wrote) for configured tunnels, there

Re:

2001-08-28 Thread Anastasia Leventi-Peetz
yes itojun, you are right with your remark, on the other side I don't see by all available RFC's about tunneling IPv6 over IPv4, how can somebody perform it, without such a Link Local Address! (In this sense it is very relevant what JINMEI, Tatuya wrote) I have read about such a tunnel success b

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:56 PM 8/28/01 +0200, Hroi Sigurdsson wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > According to Cisco's documentation, runt frames are a sign of collisions > > (this is full duplex end to end) in a non switched network, or a sign of > > broken software ie. the driver. Does anyone know what might be goin

Gratuitous ARP

2001-08-28 Thread Joshua Goodall
Easy question time, but I can't find it documented. How can I reliably (and non-destructively) trigger the sending of a single gratuitous ARP reply for some local IP/MAC address? Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: Runt frames = broken VLAN ?

2001-08-28 Thread Hroi Sigurdsson
Mike Tancsa wrote: > According to Cisco's documentation, runt frames are a sign of collisions > (this is full duplex end to end) in a non switched network, or a sign of > broken software ie. the driver. Does anyone know what might be going on ? I don't know what it is but I'm seeing the same he