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Date:      Wed, 4 May 2005 17:15:21 +0200
From:      Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
To:        "Undisclosed.Recipients": ;
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw broken with bridge under 5.x (5.3 and 5.4)
Message-ID:  <200505041715.22110.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
In-Reply-To: <200505041647.33609.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
References:  <20050502200413.GB46745@genius.tao.org.uk> <20050504142425.GB710@genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk> <200505041647.33609.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>

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El Mi=E9rcoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 16:47, Jose M Rodriguez escribi=F3:
> El Mi=E9rcoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 16:24, Josef Karthauser escribi=F3:
> > It appear that ipfw doesn't work with bridge in 5.3 and 5.4.  The
> > symptoms are that the bridge stops forwarding packets altogether,
> > for me a few minutes after it is set up.  It takes a
> >
> > # net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=3D0 && sleep 5 &&
> > net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=3D1
> >
> > to get it back up and running, which it does, but only for a few
> > minutes before it stops working again.  The five second sleep is
> > sometimes too long, and sometimes not enough time.
> >
> > Would someone in the know be able to help me to trouble shoot it?
> > (I'm scared of ipfw! :).
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Joe
>
> Are your rules stopping arp or so?  Remember make pass this kind of
> traffic at layer2.
>

sorry, forgot the rule.  Try something like this at the beginning of=20
your ruleset:

pass not ip from any to any layer2

=2D-
  josemi



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