vlan limits on e1000?

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 17:46:35 UTC 2010


Same thing I was thinking, there is nothing else that should limit vlans in
any way.

Jack


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:33 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Monday, December 06, 2010 8:18:07 pm Mihai-Catalin Salgau wrote:
> > Hello Freebsd-net,
> >
> >   I have two dual port NICs, one Broadcom(bce0,bce1) and one
> Intel(em0,em1), on FreeBSD 8-stable
> >   (about two weeks old) with a DHCP server running.
> >   I've been successfully using a large number of vlans over bce1,em0 and
> em1 with iSCSI,
> >   but wanted to switch to AoE(ata over ethernet). I've set vlandevs by
> round-robin, and got
> >   vlan1 on bce0, vlan2 on em0, vlan3 on em1, vlan4 on bce0....vlan12 on
> em1. I've binded
> >   net/vblade instances to each interface, but the problem I'm facing now
> is that while
> >   vlans 1-10 are working properly, vlans 11 and 12 won't see any traffic
> unless the interface is
> >   in promiscuous mode. I noticed that while trying to attach tcpdump and
> saw the thing instantly work.
> >   I've had no problems with iSCSI over the same setup, and dhcp packets
> are getting trough properly.
> >   I've moved those last two vlans to bce0 and they work ok, but I'm a bit
> locked on why this is happening.
> >   Are there any known limitations on vlans on e1000?
>
> Are you using the 'vlanhwfilter' feature?
>
> --
> John Baldwin
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