Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:33:19 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf? Message-ID: <20000104163319.M16210@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20000104033107.A77947@dva.in-berlin.de>; from balu@dva.in-berlin.de on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 03:31:07AM %2B0100 References: <20000104033107.A77947@dva.in-berlin.de>
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 03:31 +0100, Boris Staeblow wrote:
>
> I believe a newbie to Freebsd assumes that the kernel-option
> BRIDGE should be enought to enable such functionality!
No. One principle of routing packets between interfaces is that
this should never happen by default but instead ALWAYS demands an
admin to conciously activate this feature. That's what the RFC
says about "requirements for networked computers" (don't have the
number at hand). So if you happen to boot a kernel with bridging
support compiled in, it still should be your explicit decision to
forward packets to a different interface.
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