5.3 Beta2 bridging (update 2)

[Andre Oppermann]

Dave McCammon wrote:
> Got the bridging to work after cvsup yesterday(I think
> it was the rebuild but not for sure).
> 
> em0 - has ip
> em1 -  no ip
> 
> Anyway, with both cables plugged in, traffic passes
> through the box. Weird thing is, the box can't get to
> (ssh, ping) other machines on the em1 side but can get
> to machines on the em0 side. 
> Machines on the em1 side can get to machines on the
> em0 side. Machines on the em0 side can get to machines
> on the em1 side and can get to the bridging box.
> 
> Ok, I just went and plugged the cables back in(removed
> them last night) and traffic didn't get through. I'm
> now wondering if it isn't something to do with the em
> driver.
> This is completely confusing.
> I built a different kernel to test bridging without
> ipfw. Bridging kernels with and without ipfw worked
> last night. Now nothing.
> 
> Ok, after some more fiddling around, what needs to
> happen is that em1 can't be plugged in until the
> machine has come up(with em0 plugged in).
> After that, traffic passes as stated above. Which
> doesn't bode well if machine gets rebooted.

You might be lucky here.  About two hours ago pdeuskar committed
some fixes to the 'em' driver including one talking about bridging
problems.  Try to pull the changes to sys/dev/em/if_em* into your
5.3-BETA2 tree.

-- 
Andre