Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-10 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 11/10/2017 07:24 PM, Andrew W wrote: > That turned out to be the Cisco switch on the other end which is an > ESW500 series Small Business Switch (i.e web gui only no IOS CLI). On > there there is a 'Smartports Wizard' which allows you to set a 'role' > for each port and unless it is s

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew W
On 09/11/2017 19:52, Michael Stone wrote: I'd wonder if it's reached the point tha that the hardware is failing. I was a bit premature in thinking it was fixed!  Tried 3 different 3Com cards now plus a Linksys with a Via chipset but got identical behavour on all. Back to the original config:

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:05PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 09:55, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? This is

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > > 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C > > That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is > there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? This is one of the classic fast-etherne

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:21 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C >> > > That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is > there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? You know you're getting old when they put p

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? Intel supports FOSS on their products, which means their products are much more likely to work correctly on Deb

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew W
On 08/11/2017 14:59, Christian Seiler wrote: Is is possible for you to try a static IP on this interface and see if that solves your problem? Ive cleared the dhcp on br1 (and not assigned a static, left it with no IP) and so far its working OK I will leave it a couple of days and see if it

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-11-08 11:54, schrieb Andrew Wood: My configuration is below. Initially it worked fine, except that once in a while the card would seemingly 'lock up' i.e no VMs could get network access but unplugging and replugging the Cat 5 cable fixed it. Recently however the issue has been occuring m

Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use a 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C to provide network access for some virtual machines running under QEMU. The machine has a Realtek Gigabit Ethernet controller on the motherboard which I use solely for the hosts network interface. I've added a 3Com PCI card to act as the interface s