From owner-freebsd-ipfw Tue May 28 19:10:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3868237B411 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 19:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g4T29l014567; Tue, 28 May 2002 19:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:09:47 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Marc Perisa Cc: ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bridge(4) and non-IP packets Message-ID: <20020528190947.A14555@iguana.icir.org> References: <3CF43436.6080008@porsche.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CF43436.6080008@porsche.de>; from perisa@porsche.de on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:51:50AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG we are in code freeze now so it is not a good time to work on -stable. Re. current, i recently introduced the ability to match packets basing on the MAC header, so the patch in the PR is not necessary there. I might MFC the code after 4.6 is out. cheers luigi On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:51:50AM +0200, Marc Perisa wrote: > Hi, > > Joost Bekkers filled in 2000 a PR ( > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/23771 ) that adds > compile options to the kernel for bridge(4). It helps to not brigde > no-IP packets. > > - Is the idea useful? ( adding a kernel compile option) > - Is the way the patch is coded ok? > - Should the patch be updated against -CURRENT or -STABLE code? > > If the answer is yes three times I will take a deeper look (and perhaps > add BRIDGE_ALLOW_IPX, BRIDGE_ALLOW_) and update the patch > against the actual source. > > Another idea is to create a set of sysctl to handle different protocols > like net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw_. Then a section for checking > the protocol of packets should be added. > > Whom I may ask for guidance? > > Thanks > > Marc > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message