On 2019-02-20, Jordan Geoghegan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if this has already been reported, or if it is indeed a 
> bug, but the title pretty much sums it up.
>
> I wanted to isolate some vmm virtual machines onto a separate vlan so I 
> created a vlan interface on the host machine, and created a bridge on 
> it. I used option 4 from the link below for guidance:
>
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html#VMMnet
>
> Everything works great, but the problem is that the host interface needs 
> to be put into promiscuous mode for the bridged vlan interface to pass 
> packets to the virtual machine. No packets can be passed to or from the 
> virtual machine unless I manually put the host's vlan parent interface 
> into promiscuous mode by (for example) running tcpdump on the em interface.
>
> If folks think it's warranted, I'd be happy to do up a proper bug 
> report. Below please find a dmesg from my machine.

Others have reported this too and it's clearly not working as expected,
but I've been unable to replicate it here. If you're able to figure out
a set of commands or file changes to trigger it then a proper report on
bugs@ would definitely be a good idea.


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