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

[Faizan ul haq Muhammad]

> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:52:28 -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:
> 
> > Now i assume that in order to configure the NICs with the same NETWORK and make them working i need to configure the System as router.
> 
> No.
> 
> A router's responsibility is to route packets between DISSIMILAR network
> prefixes.
> 
> In essence, trying to do what you want is similar to this:
> 
> - you live at 100 John St
> - you need to go to 50 John St
> - the street is addressed in a way that a 50 John street is to your left
> AND to the right
> 
> Which way do you go?
In this case I can take any of them  
> Steve

 

Anyways,- Today i got some time to play around and i tried to configure the machine as bridge.

I added device if_bridge to kernel 

then i added the code to the rc.conf

 

cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
ifconfig_bridge0="addm sk0 addm sk1 up"
ifconfig_sk0="up"
ifconfig_sk1="up"

now, i dun have any network address assigned to any of the interface and connect the two lan cards to two other machines and try to ping those machines from each other. but no success. 

 

... do you think, this is as expected..? (i think bridge does not need to have any IP address..)



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