Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:58:04 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bridged interfaces don't see broadcasts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201151456530.82675-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020115224933.GB3520@frolic.no-support.loc>
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ok.. I'll see if I can come up with a way to hook multiple netgraph nodes to an ethernet node... (but since my daughter was born yesterday I'm a little deistracted at the moment :-) julian On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > Hello Julian, >=20 > > What happens if you use netgraph bridging? > > (/usr/share/examples/netgraph) >=20 > I knew that you would advertise this ;-) >=20 > Ok, since I'm already using netgraph for pppoe on the same machine, > I tried netgraph bridging at first. But with netgraph bridging it > was even worse: Not even the clients on the vr0 segment could reach > the server via broadcast (192.168.43.255). All our production > workstations are on this segment. All of them are diskless clients > using DHCP, amd with NIS maps, NIS for user DBs; so that broadcast > feature was heavily needed. >=20 > With Luigi's bridging code at least the vr0 segment was working > normally. Only the broadcast problem on the ed1 segment. I could > live with that up till now. >=20 > -Bj=F6rn >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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