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Bug in Broadcom bnxt driver in combination with VLANs

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    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
    last edited by Aug 3, 2023, 10:58 AM

    Since it looks like that's in VLAN filtering in the driver you could try disabling VLAN hardware off loading on the NIC.

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      tmoehle @stephenw10
      last edited by Aug 3, 2023, 11:22 AM

      @stephenw10
      Thank you for that suggestion. The idea was promising, but unfortunately not successful. I tried:

      ifconfig bnxt0 -vlanhwtag -vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtso
      ifconfig bnxt1 -vlanhwtag -vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtso
      

      But the errors remain :(

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        slu @tmoehle
        last edited by Aug 3, 2023, 11:52 AM

        I'm also interested in a workaround, we plan to use the Broadcom BCM57416 with VLANs.

        pfSense Gold subscription

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by Aug 3, 2023, 11:59 AM

          Mmm, worth trying but I did expect to see that on the FreeBSD bug report.

          In he short term going back to 2.6 may be the only option.

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            Delegator5042 @stephenw10
            last edited by Aug 20, 2023, 2:44 PM

            @stephenw10
            Can you point me where to look if I want to try and recompile this for myself?
            I'm a beginner but I would like to try to get my NIC to work with more than 1 VLAN

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by Aug 20, 2023, 2:50 PM

              As far as I can see there is no validated patch for this yet: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269133#c31

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                Delegator5042 @stephenw10
                last edited by Aug 20, 2023, 2:52 PM

                @stephenw10
                A bummer, but can't be helped! I'll have to find other uses for the NIC in the meantime.
                Thanks for the quick response!

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                  Delegator5042 @tmoehle
                  last edited by Aug 21, 2023, 2:03 PM

                  @tmoehle Did going back to 2.6 make the VLANs functional?
                  I tried it for a bit and didn't get anywhere (didn't get the re-allocate error but the interface didn't forward any traffic)
                  Going back to 2.6 permanently also seems cumbersome since I could not install packages from the package manager until I update to 2.7 again.

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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by Aug 21, 2023, 3:26 PM

                    You can install packages, just set the repo branch to 2.6 (deprecated).

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                      tmoehle @Delegator5042
                      last edited by Aug 21, 2023, 4:01 PM

                      @Delegator5042
                      I did a clean install for pfsense 2.6 and restored the old configuration backup. That went perfectly smooth. After that, as @stephenw10 already suggested, I went to System > Update and changed the desired branch to 2.6, so I could download packages again.

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                        Delegator5042 @tmoehle
                        last edited by Aug 21, 2023, 4:35 PM

                        @tmoehle
                        Encouraging to hear! I will give it a(nother) proper go then.
                        Silly me just read an old forum posts about the packages requiring an update, which I somehow can't find anymore so I probably didn't read something correct when I was looking for a place to download 2.6

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                          Delegator5042 @tmoehle
                          last edited by Aug 22, 2023, 9:28 AM

                          @tmoehle Sorry for prying a lot, but do the VLANs on your NIC really work?
                          I installed 2.6 and the NIC works without VLANs.
                          When I create a VLAN and assign it to an interface, No traffic gets through (oddly enough the DHCP does work)
                          When I set a different network port (non bnxt) with the same VLAN to the same configured interface, it all works (albeit I have to reload firewall rules first).

                          I am hoping that I am doing something wrong, since DHCP somehow still works on the VLAN with bnxt, but I don't see any issues with the gateway and the firewall rule permits the traffic.

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                            tmoehle @Delegator5042
                            last edited by Aug 22, 2023, 10:05 AM

                            @Delegator5042 My VLANs are working perfectly fine, yes. If your DHCP is working within those VLANs and pfsense is your only DHCP server, then chances are you overlook something.

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                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by Aug 29, 2023, 2:42 PM

                              This should now be fixed in the next 23.09 snapshots if anyone can test that.

                              Steve

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                                tmoehle @stephenw10
                                last edited by Sep 12, 2023, 3:52 PM

                                @stephenw10 Will it only go into 23.09 or will there also be an update for CE?

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                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by Sep 12, 2023, 4:01 PM

                                  It's fixed upstream in FreeBSD so it will be pulled into new CE builds.

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                                    chinraam @stephenw10
                                    last edited by Oct 25, 2024, 3:56 PM

                                    @stephenw10 Hi. With pfsense version 2.7.0 im still facing this issue.

                                    Will it get resolved in 2.7.2 or should i downgrade?

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                                      chinraam @stephenw10
                                      last edited by Oct 25, 2024, 4:06 PM

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                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 PM

                                        Yes that patch is in 2.7.2: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/21d49ce6efe3883beef6d5456a3bda4194028b01

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                                          chinraam @stephenw10
                                          last edited by Oct 25, 2024, 5:42 PM

                                          @stephenw10 Thank You. Let me try the same.

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