From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 4 12:16:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C02C114C21 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 30940 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jan 2000 20:16:19 -0000 Received: from p3e9c35ad.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.156.53.173) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2000 20:16:19 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23077 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:33:19 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:33:19 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf? Message-ID: <20000104163319.M16210@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20000104033107.A77947@dva.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000104033107.A77947@dva.in-berlin.de>; from balu@dva.in-berlin.de on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 03:31:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net < /dev/null -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message