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On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: > On 8/29/07, Lonnie Abelbeck <lists at lonnie dot abelbeck dot com> wrote: >> My goal today was to replace my Soekris net4801 with a shiny new >> net5501. >> >> I installed the generic-pc-1.231 on the net5501, replaced every "sis" >> with "vr" to create my new config.xml . >> >> vr0 - untagged LAN >> vr1 - untagged WAN >> vr2 - tagged VOIP, WLAN, OVPN, VLAN1 and XTRA >> vr3 - empty >> >> Long story short, it appears that "long frames" are not being used in >> the "vr" driver with m0n0wall. It appears I am having MTU issues, >> ping's work everywhere, but large http's stall when tagged to >> untagged interfaces are used, tagged to tagged work fine. UDP >> traffic is fine. >> >> The Soekris net5501 uses the VIA Rhine III VT6105M nic. >> >> o 802.1q Multiple VLAN support >> - VLAN long frames support (1518+4bytes) >> - VLAN tag auto inserting and extracting on TX and RX side >> - NIC auto filtering on VLAN ID optional >> >> More detailed info: >> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/networking/rhine/vt6105m/ >> >> I tried m0n0wall 1.3b4, same MTU issues. >> >> Any suggestions to enable long frames in the "vr" driver and solve >> the MTU issues? >> > > Sounds like a driver bug. phk fixed some issue in FreeBSD specific to > the vr(4) driver and net5501's, which would not be in any m0n0wall or > pfsense release yet, but I don't know what was fixed (somebody asked, > he didn't reply). Seems there are also issues with Linux drivers from > glancing over Soekris list posts since the 5501 came out. > > I would suggest posting to the Soekris tech list about VLAN long frame > support not working with a recent FreeBSD RELENG_6_2 on the 5501, may > get a response there. Could be a hardware or BIOS bug too, based on > Soekris list posts there seem to be a number of those in the 5501. You > may be the first person trying VLAN tagging on one. > > -Chris Should an exec.php "ifconfig vr2 vlanhwtag" work with 1.3b4? 1.231 does not support vlanhwtag. Or is it far more complicated than that? Lonnie |