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List:       freebsd-net
Subject:    Re: Forwarding w/o promisc on 6.4
From:       Chris Cowart <ccowart () rescomp ! berkeley ! edu>
Date:       2009-04-20 20:24:16
Message-ID: 20090420202416.GD40655 () hal ! rescomp ! berkeley ! edu
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Jon Otterholm wrote:
> On 2009-04-19 11.14, "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Jon Otterholm wrote:
>>> I have a router running 6.4R that does not forward packets if I disable
>>> PROMISC on the interface. Hardware is a Dell PE with two Intel 82541EI
>>> chipsets (if_em). I have a number (~100) of vlan-interfaces on em0.
>>> Everything works as aexpected if I turn on PROMISC on em0 but forwarding
>>> stops if I disable it, I can still communicate with the router directly on
>>> the same logical network (for example pinging interface adress on a vlan_if
>>> from a client on that vlan) but all forwarding stops.
>> 
>> Try disabling hardware VLAN taggging/processing?  I believe you should be able
>> to do this with "ifconfig em0 -vlanhwtag" (substituting appropriate interface
>> names).  It could be there's a bug in how hardware-optimized tag handling is
>> being managed, as when promiscuous mode is used we re-insert vlan headers in
>> software for the benefits of BPF.
> 
> I tried doing this without any luck. Running GENERIC kernconf.
>
>>> Some info:
>>> net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
>>> net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 0 (enableing this does not help)
>>> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
>>> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576
>>> kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
>>> 
>>> I use PF for filtering and disableing this does not help either.

Could you send the output from `ifconfig` and `netstat -rn`? That might
help us figure out what's going on.

-- 
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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