Re: what to check? no IPV6 pings between nodes on the same switch

From: Benoit Chesneau <benoitc_at_enki-multimedia.eu>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:21:29 UTC
I really have to assign an IP address. 8t wasn't enough when I just addes "up". The driver is old maybe there have been some fixes since in linux version.

Benoît

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 13:18, Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:11:41 +0000
> Benoit Chesneau <benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu> wrote:
>
>> Setting the IPv4 makes it works indeed! How did you find it? I will
>> open a ticket about it.
>
> Gut feeling :)
>
> Question: Does setting
>
> ifconfig_ql0="up"
>
> help as well, or do you really have to assign an IP address?
>
> Best
> Michael
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot to both of you anyway :)
>>
>>
>> Benoît
>>
>> ------- Original Message -------
>> On Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 13:01, Michael Gmelin
>> <grembo@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:07:54 +0000
>> > Benoit Chesneau benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu wrote:
>> >
>> > > So I noticed that tcpdump was enabling the "promiscuous" mode to
>> > > the interface. So I tried to do it manually: `ifconfig ql0
>> > > promisc` and ping worked even after disabling this mode `ifconfig
>> > > ql0 -promisc`.
>> > >
>> > > What does happen when the promiscuous mode is enabled? I'm not
>> > > sure to understand what is the issue :/
>> >
>> >
>> > Does giving the interface also an IPv4 address make a
>> > difference, e.g. ifconfig_ql0="inet 10.0.0.1/24"?
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Michael
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Gmelin
>>
>
> --
> Michael Gmelin