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    • J
      jason0 last edited by

      Hello,

      I am having trouble: I setup a bridge with rstp on, and the port links are going down and up again every 5-10 seconds or so at about a 50% duty cycle.

      While data certainly is not moving, I have verified it is the link itself by watching the console output of the other end of the link.

      Before setting up the bridge, I configured each port by itself as its own interface, and each port can send/receive packets just fine.

      When I configured the bridge, I also set the net.link.bridge.pfil_member to 0 and net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge to 1.

      I have tried the following combinations:

      • connecting to a smart switch (untagged vlan)

      • connecting to a dumb switch

      • connecting one firewall to another (pfsense, same setup each)

      • connecting directly to my host computer

      • with and without rstp

      • with the default values of the tunables listed above

      • forcing edge or ptp port modes

      • enabling/disabling auto edge/ptp modes

      • altering bridge priorities

      So, here is the pertinant info:
      these devices are lanner fw7541C devices running pfsense 2.1.  I have turned off all hardware offloading, etc.

      Can anyone lend insight to me?  Thanks!

      –jason

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      • chpalmer
        chpalmer last edited by

        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,66908.0.html

        Long story short-  Try a 2.1.1 snapshot.

        http://snapshots.pfsense.org/

        Triggering snowflakes one by one..

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