Re: FreeBSD guest on Linux KVM, some vtnet(4) packets don't arrive

Zhenlei Huang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Apr 9, 2026, at 12:05 AM, Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Lexi Winter wrote in <[email protected]>:
>> even with the network working, tcpdump is still not showing any packets.
>> i have no idea what's going on here or even where to start looking.
>> 
>> i'm currently installing a ppc64le guest on the same host to see if that
>> behaves any differently.
> 
> so, i tested on ppc64le and tcpdump works fine.
> 
> FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #0 main-n284768-e6eba5076929: Mon Mar 30 15:25:27 UTC 2026
> [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/powerpc.powerpc64le/sys/GENERIC64LE
> 
> this could be some sort of endian conversion issue, but since the ppc64
> networking itself works fine, i would have thought any endian problems
> would have surfaced before that.

Nice !

To narrow down the problem, will you please test tcpdump with other ethernet drivers,
say if_bridge(8) and / or if_epair(8) ? Surely on PPC64 ( BE ).

Best regards,
Zhenlei
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