From owner-freebsd-net Sun Feb 4 1:52: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-03.iinet.net.au (syncopation-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2524B37B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 01:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16129 invoked by uid 666); 4 Feb 2001 09:59:33 -0000 Received: from reggae-18-28.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.80.28) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 4 Feb 2001 09:59:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3A7D2610.E2CD1AD0@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 01:51:12 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Wales Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? (more info) References: <20010204062837.94849.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rich Wales wrote: > > Earlier, I reported an ARP problem on a 4.2-STABLE bridge system. > > A few people wrote me privately, advising me to include a firewall > rule passing UDP packets on port 2054 to/from the IP address 0.0.0.0. > > I've tried this, but it doesn't help any. I should mention, though, > that I don't think this firewall rule is relevant in any case. > > First, the "port 2054" kludge doesn't appear to be in the networking > code any more. I grep'ed the entire -STABLE base source for any > references to UDP port 2054, and I found nothing at all except for > the commented-out line in the etc/rc.firewall file. As far as I'm > aware, bridging of non-IP packets is now controlled by the kernel's > default "ipfw" rule -- and, yes, I do have the options IPFIREWALL > and IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT in my configuration. > > Second, I'm not talking about bridging of ARP packets anyway. I'm > trying to connect directly to the bridge machine -- but the bridge > is failing to respond to requests for its own hardware address on > its "rl0" interface. try using netgraph bridging instead. > > Rich Wales richw@webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message