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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:04:12 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Antonio Bemfica <antonio@axolotl.ic.gc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bridge - how to?
Message-ID:  <20000204000411.D42036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000202183617.44028G-100000@axolotl.ic.gc.ca>; from antonio@axolotl.ic.gc.ca on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000202183617.44028G-100000@axolotl.ic.gc.ca>

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On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0500, Antonio Bemfica wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a bridge between some hosts on my network but am
> having trouble getting it to work. I've followed the instructions set out
> at http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/freebsd/bdg-ipfw.txt but still not traffic
> will go through.
> 
> Can anyone point to some good documentation or useful links? I've been
> trying to search the archives for hints, but the servers at freebsd.org
> seem to be having some problems today.

I have a brige set up on a machine behind a firewall, so I have no
IPFW rules on the bridge. But to set up the brigde all I did was add,

  options         BRIDGE                  #enables bridging between ethernet 
                                          #cards -- see bridge(4)

To the kernel config and then put,

  echo -c "Enabling bridging: "
  if sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     echo "activated ."
  else
     echo "failed ."
  fi

In rc.local. And it works fine.

Did you have a look at bridge(4)? Are your interface types listed?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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