Bridgeing: 2nd bridge does not pass traffic
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Hi all
I'm having a bit a hard time here getting two bridge interfaces running. Requirement is simple: accesspoint serving two SSIDs, each connected to an appropriate VLAN. Switchport provides untagged traffic for wlan1, and .1q tagged traffic for wlan2. There are already dhcp-servers and gateways available on these segments, so the pfsense does only L2 connectivity by extending these networks into the air.
Bridge0: vr0_untag, vr1_untag, ath0_wlan1 (hostap) Bridge1: vr0_144, vr1_144, ath0_wlan2 (hostap)
While setting this up was no problem, I'm having quite a tough time using the 2nd bridge. From my understanding and experience you can usually set IP addresses to both, the physical-member as well as to the bridge interface, so I should be able to dhcp-up all four interfaces: both Ethernet and both bridges, not?
What works for me is:
vr0_untag DHCPC -> fine, gets an IP from DHCP on vlan0 vr0_144 DHCPC -> fine, gets an IP from DHCP on vlan144 bridge0 DHCPC -> fine, gets an IP from DHCP on vlan0 bridge1 DHCPC -> fail, never gets an address
the problem with bridge1 is also reproducible when clients are connected to these bridges:
wlan clients connected to ath0_wlan1 are getting onto the vlan0 network, all good
wlan clients connected to ath0_wlan2 are getting dhcp'd, but cannot communicate otherwisethis is very strange: I can see the DHCP-chitchat through bridge1, but see nothing further. Whatever the clients are doing after getting the ip: it's just not visible! Even arp-whohas won't get though, I cannot arp-resolve the ip of the dhcp server, just blanc.
I made sure that there are enough IPs on the servers, doublechecked the switch (though vlan144 is fine otherwise vr0_144 would not get an ip neither), even made the same config to the 2nd Ethernet interface (vr0): exactely the same: native works just fine, vlan'd port does barely supply an IP that’s it. For analysis I've been through all combinations net.link.pfil_*, and also disabled all packet filtering, nothing.
Difference from bridge0 to bridge1 is only that the later has a vlan-tagged member … but I've seen this working before.
As I'm running out of ideas I was wondering if there's something I missed? Just having a 2nd bridge interface should not be a problem, not? I've searched a lot in this forum but found only one bridge confirmed to work ...
Cheers
Alix hardware with 2.1-rel -
i exchanged the bridges numbering with the same result: only the untagged-bridge works, the tagged does not, i cannot get an IP onto the bridge interface with vlan member.
though if there is no bridge that includes the untagged vr0, the bridge with vr0_144 works fine.
so what does not work is: bridge a vlan-member if it's untagged parent is part of another bridge … grrr...
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and thats it: do not mix untagged and tagged interfaces with bridges.
final hint came through this discussion: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=31539.0sorry for bothering