bridging... stops?

From: Val P (secureplay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 12/01/03

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    Hi,

    Every now and then (maybe once a month), our freebsd firewall/bridge
    stops bridging. There are no errors anywhere, and no obvious triggers
    (for example, it was working sunday night, Monday morning it was dead).

    Turning off IPF or setting its rules to pass all did not fix the problem,
    so I am somewhat ruling out IPF as the problem. Rebooting the machine did
    fix the problem -- everything was working once again... but I'd rather not
    be fixing problems the microsoft way. :)

    How can I go about debugging this issue when it happens again?

    FYI: Proliant DL380/G2 (or G3, I forget?) with 1GB RAM. Three active NICs:
    copper broadcomm gigabit on bge0 (management port), and fiber broadcom
    gigabit on bge 2/3 (bridge endpoints). Single processor at around 2 GHz
    or so. Load on the server is light, no packet loss. Running FreeBSD 4.8.
    There were absolutely no changes (physical or software) between the time
    the machine was working and the time it stopped working. Whether or not
    there were any transient network conditions I do not know. I did find a
    machine on the network which was broadcasting with an IP of 127.0.0.1,
    and killed it.. but that was after rebooting the server and restoring
    bridging functionality.

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