if_bridge FreeBSD 6.0 on a Broadcom interface not working

[Bruce Walker]

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote:
>   
>> As soon as I boot up with em0 and em1 added to the bridge0 interface, I 
>> lose IP connectivity.  Interestingly, I can ping hosts by IP address.  
>> But all attempts to do anything else, eg NTP, DNS or ssh are futile.
>>     
>  
> if_bridge doesnt handle interfaces with TXCSUM at the moment, you can
> work around this by clearing this with 'ifconfig xxx -txcsum', where xxx
> is your em or bge card.
>
> Im testing a patch to fix this.
>   


W00t!  :-)  That's it; perfect. No checksum errors, and bridging works 
great.

I'll watch for your patch and test it asap.

Thanks, Andrew!