From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 1 9:16:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cornflake.nickelkid.com (cornflake.nickelkid.com [216.116.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26A337B41E for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by cornflake.nickelkid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA36774 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:14:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Netgraph bridging: what is LOCAL_IFACE? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I posted this message to -questions last week, but never got a response, so perhaps someone on this list (-net) can help out. I'm trying to learn more about the netgraph bridging module, and I ran across this comment in /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge: [quote] # List the names of the interfaces that you want to bridge across # here in ${BRIDGE_IFACES}. If you want to include the local host # machine as well then set ${LOCAL_IFACE} as well (it may also be # listed in ${BRIDGE_IFACES}). Of course, any ${LOCAL_IFACE} must # be ifconfig(8)ured separately. If you don't want a ${LOCAL_IFACE} # then leave it defined as the emtpy string. [end quote] The sentence: If you want to include the local host machine as well then set ${LOCAL_IFACE} as well (it may also be listed in ${BRIDGE_IFACES}). is confusing. Can someone clarify what this says? Include the "local host machine" in what, exactly? What is meant by the "local host machine" in this context? What is the significance of the LOCAL_IFACE interface? Why would one want to define a LOCAL_IFACE, rather than simply using the bridge interface? Unfortunately, I don't yet know enough about netgraph in general to figure it out from reading the rest of the bridge-creation script. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message