Bridge ports links bouncing

[jason0]

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

[chpalmer]

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

Long story short-  Try a 2.1.1 snapshot.

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/