Problem with Bridging ... and bge devices under FreeBSD 7.x?

[Marc G. Fournier]

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You nailed it ... I was missing the 'tap.up_on_open=1' ... once I put that in 
place, it works like a charm ...

Thanks ...

- --On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 22:37:58 -0700 Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> 
wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:38:38 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd at hub.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I only have one VM running on one server ...
>
> Ok.
>
> Here are some debugging suggestions.
> - /etc/sysctl.conf should have the following;
>     net.link.tap.user_open=1
>     net.link.tap.up_on_open=1
>   run sysctl manually to set these.
>
> - if you are running qemu as user foo (and not root) you will need
>     own tap0 foo:foo
>   in /etc/devfs.conf and do /etc/rc.d/devfs restart.
>
> - start qemu with -monitor stdio as this will give you a
>   command line interface to qemu.  Now you can type
>       info network
>   to see what qemu sees.  You should see something like
>     VLAN 0 devices:
>       tap: ifname=tap0 setup_script=/usr/local/etc/qemu-ifup
>       rtl8139 pci macaddr=52:54:00:d2:56:03
>
> - I no longer remember if qemu-ifup is needed but without it
>   you may need to manually bring up tap0.
>
> - tcpdump on tap0 to see if ping packets (sent from the VM)
>   get through.  Next tcpdump on bridge0.  Next tcpdump on bge0.
>
> I'd still like to see the topology and ip addresses on
> various interfaces.



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