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Date:      Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:53:12 +0300
From:      "Mihail Balikov" <misho@interbgc.com>
To:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Netgraph bridging vlans
Message-ID:  <004701c2153d$28068720$eee209d9@interbgc.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206161859300.19020-100000@internal.pipenetworks.com> <20020616060836.A22557@iguana.icir.org>

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I have not succeeded to setup vlan bridging even with 4.6. Looking in source
code :
if_vlan.c :
[...]
 case SIOCSIFFLAGS:
  /*
   * We don't support promiscuous mode
   * right now because it would require help from the
   * underlying drivers, which hasn't been implemented.
   */
  if (ifr->ifr_flags & (IFF_PROMISC)) {
   ifp->if_flags &= ~(IFF_PROMISC);
   error = EINVAL;
  }
  break;
[...]

In  if_ethersubr.c ether_demux() it's easy to see that vlan packets with
unicast mac addresses different of parent mac would be dropped.

for freebsd 4.4 I have wrote small patch to allow promisc mode on vlan
interfaces and bridgiing of vlan interfaces. If you are interested I will
renew it for 4.6.

regards,
misho




----- Original Message -----
From: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org>
To: <steve@pipenetworks.com>
Cc: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Netgraph bridging vlans


> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 07:14:14PM +1000, steve@pipenetworks.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been working with Netgrpah in bridging vlans using the vtun
> > package. I recently tried to extend this to bridging vlans but found
that
>
> native (not netgraph) bridging in 4.6 works with vlans too.
>
> cheers
> luigi
>
> > it did not work. I think the reason was that the scriptI had been using
> > (/usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge)to happily do bridging
between
> > two real interfaces seemed not to place the vlan interfaces into PROMISC
> > mode.
> >
> > When I start the ether.bridge I do get a message saying promiscuos mode
> > enabled on the vlan1 interface but subsequent "ifconfig" commands do not
> > show the flag set on the interface.
> >
> > Has anybody come across this before ?
> >
> > I am running i386 hardware and 4.5-RELEASE if that helps.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Baxter
> > Director - PIPE Networks
> > phone : 07 3220 1100/ 0417 818 695
> > fax   : 07 3220 1800
> >
> >
> >
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