Comment 25 for bug 584048

Quoting Andrew Klettke (<email address hidden>):
> > So now is this going through the firewall?
> This is from the firewall.
>
> > What kind of firewall? Do other hosts inside the firewall have the
> > right ARP entry for the guest? What about the host itself?
> It's a simple i386 OpenBSD 4.7 box with PF enabled. All traffic to and from the Host and the VM is unfiltered. I'll have to check whether the ARP entry changes for the host, but other hosts show the ARP entry change as well.
>
> > Note that this sounds like a different problem from what others are
> > reporting. Others are saying that their bridge hangs when new devices
> > are added or removed.
> Note that the OP has said nothing about adding or removing new devices.

Yes, I just want to make clear that there may be two separate issues
here.

If you don't mind, once you verify the host's /proc/net/arp entries
before and after it goes bad, I'm going to whip up a recipe for trying
to reproduce this without kvm, so we can reclassify it approrpriately.

thanks,
-serge