ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

[Faizan ul haq Muhammad]

> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:08:56 -0500
> From: steve at ibctech.ca
> To: faizi62 at hotmail.com
> CC: lists at jnielsen.net; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC
> 
> Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote:
> 
> >> Provide the output to "ifconfig bridge0", and "kldstat".
> > 
> > ifconfig bridge0
> > 
> > bridge0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0
> > mtu 1500
> > ther 0e:04:7b:09:e7:b0
> > inet 192.168.0.1 network 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> > id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
> > maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
> > root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
> > 
> > kldstat:
> > id     REfs   Address                        Size         Name
> > 1      7       0xc0400000                  9111ec     kernel
> > 2      1       0xc0d12000                  6a32c       acpi.ko
> > 3.     1       0xc4628000                  22000       lunux.ko
> > 
> > 
> 
> That is what I kind of thought...
> 
> > ...One more thing: do i need to enable bridging through some SCTL command.
> > somthing like sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.config=sk0:0, sk1:0
> > 
> > by the way this command generates this error: "unknown oid
> > net.link.ether.bridge.config "
> 
> Put:
> 
> if_bridge_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> You can also load the module with:
> 
> kldload if_bridge
this command gives the output: module if_bridge already exists..

... failed to register... bla bla

(I have device   if_bridge in my kernel setting so that already exists)

> 
> IIRC, your settings in rc.conf should be enough to configure the bridge,
>  so if you choose to load dynamically while running, try a
> "/etc/netstart" to configure the bridge.
> 
> If that doesn't work, a reboot should.
> 
> If you can't get it to work, supply the same output I asked for above,
THE out put is the same for the above said commands
> and then I'll set up a quick lab here to test it.
> 
> Steve

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