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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:53:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Ludo Koren <lk@tempest.sk>
Cc:        luigi@info.iet.unipi.it, ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipdivert and ethernet bridging
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000306105208.8352D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200003061538.QAA32568@lk.tempest.sk>

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Ludo,

I would be very interested in this code.  While I probably could develop
it myself, I'd really rather not :-). 

Presumably you pull the same tricks that the normal ip_input code does for
reassembly appropriate-looking packets, etc, etc.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Ludo Koren wrote:

> 
>       > I have a 3.4-STABLE box which I have enabled ethernet
>       > bridging, bridging and ipfw, and also ipdivert, as I would
>       > like to transform/process some packets as they pass through
>       > the bridge using a userland process.  However, the results so
>       > far seem not to be good--while the packet due indeed disappear
>       > from processing at the divert rule, they never reappear
>       > following it, or reach the userland process :-(.  Packets
>       > originating locally on the bridge box seem to be processed
>       > fine.
> 
>       > I was wondering if you had any thoughts on whether this should
>       > be something that works, or how I could get it to work?  I'm
>       > not averse to using -current instead, if necessary.
> 
> 
> I have a patch for bridge. I am using forwarding to redirect packets
> for squid. So far it is working well. If you are interested I can send
> you the patch.
> 
> ludo
> 


  Robert N M Watson 

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