vlan limits on e1000?

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 18:20:05 UTC 2010


I assumed he was, but if you arent running 7.1.8 do that before anything
else.

Jack


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> On 12/6/2010 8:18 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.
>
> Hi,
>        There were a bunch of changes to RELENG_8's em driver a week ago.
> Perhaps update to that first.  But what sort of em nics do you have ?
> pciconf -lvc will show it.  I have a number of boxes with 20 or more
>
>  ifconfig | grep ^vlan | wc
>      20     120    1562
>
> Most of which are pcie based, or onboard 82574L types.
>
>        ---Mike
>
> >   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?
> >
> >
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