From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 28 0:38:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C7437B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA17924; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:38:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Boyd R. Faulkner" Cc: "Peter S. Housel" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network bridge on current. In-Reply-To: <20000928022230.A967@simon.catburg.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmmm, netgraph's bridging code is more direct but it can not do IP filtering on the packets that are en-route. This is because it is a purely MAC-layer service. I am not sure about Luigi's bridging code. I know the dummynet stuff seems to connect with the ipfw code but I don't think that the bridge code does... (I may be wrong) So I don't know how you plan on filtering the bridged segments.. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:11:54AM -0700, Peter S. Housel wrote: > > > I am wondering how to do network bridging on current. The description > > > in the handbook seems to be out of date as the sysctl IODs are no longer > > > in evidence. Does loading ng_bridge substitute for building the kernel > > > with OPTIONS BRIDGE? > > > > Excuse my ignorance (and curiousity), but wouldn't it be cheaper to > > just buy a switch? > > > > Cheers, > > -Peter S. Housel- housel@acm.org http://members.home.com/housel/ > > I intend to use it as a firewall. The switch will live behind it. > > Boyd > > -- > Boyd Faulkner "...but the chocolate at > faulkner@asgard.hos.net Rumpelmayer's is great..." > http://asgard.hos.net/~faulkner -- A. Crowley Book of Lies > 1011101 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message