From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 28 7:39:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F5C37B43F for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01216; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:39:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:39:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Boyd R. Faulkner" , "Peter S. Housel" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network bridge on current. Message-ID: <20000928093910.A24037@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000928022230.A967@simon.catburg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: ; from "Julian Elischer" on Thu Sep 28 00:38:40 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 28), Julian Elischer said: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:11:54AM -0700, Peter S. Housel wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > > > > I am wondering how to do network bridging on current. The > > > > description in the handbook seems to be out of date as the > > > > sysctl IODs are no longer in evidence. Does loading ng_bridge > > > > substitute for building the kernel with OPTIONS BRIDGE? > > > > > > Excuse my ignorance (and curiousity), but wouldn't it be cheaper > > > to just buy a switch? > > > > I intend to use it as a firewall. The switch will live behind it. > > I am not sure about Luigi's bridging code. I know the dummynet stuff > seems to connect with the ipfw code but I don't think that the bridge > code does... (I may be wrong) So I don't know how you plan on > filtering the bridged segments.. ipfw definitely supports filtering bridged packets; there's even a "bridge" keyword to match them explicitly. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message