... auth-key $password } } Any suggstions? Am I making a substantial error? I did not want to make this posting too long, so if somebody is interested in the detailed config files then I can make them available. Thanks, - Christian

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - May 30 2007 - 14:04

... up" - which helped. Another issue is VGT mode (a must if you want to handle more than 4 vlans in a VM). Sometimes, incoming short ethernet frames get lost (I know, this is very vague). Any other experiences/observations/ideas? - Christian

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 2 2007 - 03:50

... it to perform a BIOS upgrade. No suspicious output in dmesg. Any ideas on how I could further track down the problem? Thanks, Christian The vr interfaces in dmesg: vr0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, ...

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 12 2007 - 09:35

... Operation not permitted Oct 19 08:22:55 R20 /bsd: arp info overwritten for X.X.96.1 by 00:00:24:c8:d9:f8 on vlan201 I did not restart the bgpd on R20 (which would certainly help), as I would like to further track down the problem. - Christian

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 19 2007 - 03:10

I applied the diff manually to -stable (watch out for path_updateall/prefix_updateall), and now it works perfectly. Thanks, Claudio! > And here is a preliminary diff for all the curious ones. bgpd needs to > track changes of routes with F_NEXTHOP

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Jun 1 2007 - 04:41

> I've personally not had any issues with the vlance driver. Have two > 4.1 guests on ESX3.0.1, been running since around July without issues > well, ... > considering I haven't had any issues to date. I will admit they don't > get a lot of

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 2 2007 - 10:19

> Not sure if related, but something similar has been fixed in > 4.2-current already. This was also the first thing that came into my mind, however, I don't think it is related. VR_STICKHW is only written erroneously during attach, and since my

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 12 2007 - 10:43

> Are these interfaces configured in "autoselect" mode? What happens when > you configure them in fixed mode, e.g. 100Mb/full duplex? Sounds like a good idea. In the future, I will configure them in fixed mode, it won't hurt. Even though it may

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 12 2007 - 11:53

>For what it's worth, I experienced the same problem caused by >attaching and detaching a (short) crossover cable multiple times >on a vr interface in The cable used in the situation when things went wrong was also short, < 1m. >soekris

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 12 2007 - 12:15

Just for the record: I upgraded to ESX 3.0.2 and... 1.) So far, I did not observe any stalls on the emulated e1000 (em) interfaces. Currently I am playing with the vmxnet driver as well. 2.) VGT mode seems to work correct, very short ethernet

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 14 2007 - 14:55

Sometimes it is very annoying that your settings in the .vmx won't be respected / changed back by the VI client. A very slow, but bullet-proof method is the following: 1.) Connect directly with the VI client to the ESX (I do not have virtual

openbsd-misc - Christian Plattner - Oct 16 2007 - 02:52