Hi :) Thanks for figuring all this out. The longer I 'run' this project, the more oddities of commercial switch H/W I get to hear about. Perhaps we should add a page to the bridge site where these things are documented?
Mind writing a short 'summary for the unwashed masses' of your findings? cheers, Lennert On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:06:10PM +0000, Matt Critcher wrote: > word to the wise > > HP4000 switches, when multiple vlans are enabled, and one has a monitor port set > up, combined with 2 bridges in a linux box, cause all sorts of problems. > > after looking around for the last 8 hours solid i found that for some very > strange reason all packets on the network that were headed off this campus got > as far as the switch with the monitor port. which happened to be one before the > router. i guess the muddled mac addresses (since both bridges are on the same > set of switches on different vlans and the same mac shows up in both bridges) > were causing fits with the switch. when the monitor port was on, you could ping > nothing on that switch, but could do just fine on each switch below it. turn it > off, and all works great (and it was thoroughly tested this time -- more than > just a ping). turn it back on, and it breaks. > > i know i have spammed up the list with a couple of rather long emails in the > last week, and my aplolgies for that. i just hope this thread saves one person > the headache i've had for the past week. > > let me know if i can be of help to anyone or if someone wants more info on these > switches. > > thanks so much for your patience. > > matt > > > --------------------------------------------- > Visit http://www.neark.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
