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    2 sides of my bridge cant see each other

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    • Y Offline
      youcangetholdofjules
      last edited by

      heres the config:

      Shell Output - ifconfig bridge0
      bridge0: flags=1028943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
      description: BR1_IGB3_BXE1_VL710_IOT_Bridge
      options=0
      ether 58:9c:fc:10:ff:d8
      inet 222.20.20.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 222.20.20.255
      inet6 fe80::5a9c:fcff:fe10:ffd8%bridge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x13
      id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
      maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
      root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
      member: igb3.710 flags=543<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
      ifmaxaddr 0 port 17 priority 128 path cost 55
      member: igb0.710 flags=543<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
      ifmaxaddr 0 port 16 priority 128 path cost 55
      groups: bridge
      nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

      They always seem to be stuck in learning mode. To be clear this is a VLAN bridge. Both sides can see the internet just fine.

      Stuck. Any ideas?

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        The bridge members are supposed to be 'learning', that's normal.

        What firewall rules do you have?

        How is the bridge filtering configured?
        https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/bridges/firewall.html#bridging-and-firewalling

        How are you testing?

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        • Y Offline
          youcangetholdofjules
          last edited by

          Found it -

          needed to set:

          net.link.bridge.pfil_member
          net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge

          both to zero.

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Doing so removes all filtering. You can have filtering as long as you have the rules to pass traffic you need.

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