Subject: Re: bringing up bridge0 makes hme0 stop
To: None <lloyd@must-have-coffee.gen.nz>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/11/2007 15:35:14
> Hi all,
> I've just gone and bridged tap0 to hme0 on my Ultra 10 and I stopped
> getting packets in and out of hme0. I switched off hme0 hardware
> checksums on a hunch and I started to get packets. Is this supposed
> to happen? I'm guessing not.
>
> I'm running NetBSD/sparc64 4.0_BETA2 from a couple of days ago.
>
> I brought up the tap and bridge with
> ifconfig tap0 create
> ifconfig bridge0 create
> brconfig bridge0 add tap0 add hme0 up
>
> tcpdump showed no packets and ping couldn't look up host names in the
> DNS. I put tcpdump in the background then disabled hardware checksums
> and started a ping. Right away tcpdump started reporting network
> traffic.
>
> If nobody can tell me that it's supposed to work that way, I'll raise
> a PR.
>
> Cheers,
> Lloyd
see PR/21831.
YAMAMOTO Takashi