From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 9:56:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lk.tempest.sk (lk.tempest.sk [195.28.100.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9261534D for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lk@tempest.sk) Received: (from koren@localhost) by lk.tempest.sk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA41424; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:56:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from koren) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:56:49 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199912301756.SAA41424@lk.tempest.sk> From: Ludo Koren To: danielb@almazs.pacex.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from daniel B on Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:18:53 -0800 (PST)) Subject: Re: FreeBSD KERNEL GURUs; Kernel Bridging HELP! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > To start-with I set the firewall 'open' and all machines were > able to ping each other and I was able to even browse the net > from my local LAN BUT there seems to be problem passing packets > from 'ROUTER' to fxp0 VIA fxp1 > ROUTER----fxp1-[ firewall ]-fxp0----[ LAN ] > some UDP and ICMP packets don't make it from outside(Internet) > to my inside LAN as a result web browsing stalls. I have tried > to use 'ipfw fwd' rule to forward packets from LAN to router > via fxp1 and vise versa but 'ipfw fwd' seems to work only in > one directions. Has anybody tried setting up kernel bridging > in FreeBSD that they would like to share with me? How can I > forward packets between two interfaces in the same box without > routing? for the moment forwarding is not working together with bridging, AFAIK. The purpose of the sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 command is to enable dummynet via ipfw. Bridging with open firewall is working for me (I have xl0 interface with inet address and ep0 interface without inet address). Regards, ludo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message