Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Jason Tubnor
Hi, On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 13:02, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I am using bhyve with vm-bhyve, I am trying to set up a virtual network > with multiple hosts. The idea is that a VM would be on the same virtual > network no matter which actual host it is on. > > Say I have a public network a.b.c.0/24.

[Bug 203874] [patch] MSI/MSI-X interrupts don't work in VMware virtual machines

2020-10-20 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203874 Manuel P. changed: What|Removed |Added CC||registrazi...@kiokoman.eu.o

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 10/20/20 8:35 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: So why alias? Wouldn't "ifconfig_public=" work? We already have ifconfig_public="addm bge0 up" Adding ifconfig_public="inet 1.2.3.4/24" on another line would overwrite the first one. These are just variable assignments not execu

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Shawn Webb
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:02:17PM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I am using bhyve with vm-bhyve, I am trying to set up a virtual network > with multiple hosts. The idea is that a VM would be on the same virtual > network no matter which actual host it is on. > > Say I have a public network a.b.c.0

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! > Am 20.10.2020 um 14:10 schrieb D'Arcy Cain : > > On 10/20/20 7:39 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >>> When I started I thought of a switch as analogous to a physical switch. If >>> I am in an office with one ethernet jack but I have multiple devices I >>> might connect a switch (or hub) to

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 10/20/20 7:39 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: When I started I thought of a switch as analogous to a physical switch. If I am in an office with one ethernet jack but I have multiple devices I might connect a switch (or hub) to the jack and plug my devices into the switch. I don't need to crea

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
A short P.S. I just looked shortly into vm-bhyve. Whatever this tool does with respect to the "switches", possibly just turning off all the hardware acceleration features for your network card can solve your problems without further messing around with bridge(4) and friends. What you need to co

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all, > Am 20.10.2020 um 12:50 schrieb D'Arcy Cain : > > On 10/20/20 5:36 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >>> I did see that. Does that mean that I don't even need to create switches >>> at all? >> What is a switch in this context? I use bridge interfaces to connect jails >> via epair >> and VM

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all, > Am 20.10.2020 um 11:28 schrieb D'Arcy Cain : > > On 10/20/20 4:36 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >> It's officially documented here: >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html > > I did see that. Does that mean that I don't even need to create sw

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 10/20/20 4:36 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: It's officially documented here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html I did see that. Does that mean that I don't even need to create switches at all? "If the bridge host needs an IP address, set it o

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 10/20/20 2:56 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: By switch, do you mean use bridge? How specifically is the network configured? Yes. I did try bridge first but I may not have understand all the nuances. I also thought that "switch" meant the same thing as a physical switch but I guess it is mo

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all, > Am 20.10.2020 um 08:56 schrieb John-Mark Gurney : > I have heard (and that is the way I do that), that you have to put the > host IPs on the bridge0 interface, and not the em0 interface. It's officially documented here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-