A short P.S. I just looked shortly into vm-bhyve. Whatever this tool does with respect to the "switches", possibly just turning off all the hardware acceleration features for your network card can solve your problems without further messing around with bridge(4) and friends.
What you need to configure depends on your hardware. I made a table for the various interfaces we use at our place: em: -rxcsum -txcsum -lro -vlanmtu -vlanhwcsum -vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtag up igb: -rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up ix: -rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up ixl: -rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso up bnxt: -rxcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag -vlanhwtso -vlanhwfilter up HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Kaiserallee 13a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de i...@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Egeling, Daniel Lienert, Fabian Stein
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