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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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