Bridge causes freezes

Giulio Ferro auryn at zirakzigil.org
Mon Mar 15 21:25:00 UTC 2010


I confirm this problem for another server:
stable 8 amd64 + vlan + carp

Whenever I join a bridge with a vlan interface:

ifconfig bridge0 addm vlan35

The system soon or later freezes.

This time it has happened after 3 days of normal behavior.

No logs, no dump.


On 03.03.2010 12:30, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> I'm setting up an openvpn demon in bridge mode on a firewall.
>
> Scenario:
> freebsd 8 amd64 stable (last week), pf, vlans, openvpn in tun mode 
> (different
> port, of course), many routes
>
> I've created the bridge interface in rc.conf like this:
> cloned_interfaces="vlan.. .. .. bridge0"
> ...
> ifconfig_bridge0="addm vlan35 up"
>
>
> Everything seems to work as expected as far as networking is concerned.
>
> The problem arises after an hour or so: the system simply freezes, and 
> no relevant
> log can be found after restart.
>
> This _always_ happens, even when I don't start the openvpn bridge 
> demon...
>
> Any idea, anybody?
>
> Thanks.
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