On Friday, June 25, 2010, Joseph Hardeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > I have an interesting VLAN setup/problem question. I followed the pfSense > doc on setting up multiple vlans on the same interface (VLAN Trunking) and > the switch is setup with trunking going to the pfSense box (vlan1 untagged, > all other vlans tagged). However, the VLANs do not pass traffic or respond > unless we are running a tcpdump or packet capture on the VLAN interface. We > have a system behind one of the vlans we are testing with and it will is not > able to hit the pfSense box or internet, until we turn on tcpdump –i vlan2 or > packet capture on vlan2 interface. > > Has any one else seen this problem or know how to fix
That's a problem in the NIC hardware or driver. you can work around it by putting the NIC into promisc. ifconfig (interface) promisc Put in shellcmd tag in config to survive reboot. > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
