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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:29:39 -0400
From:      Robert Hough <rch@acidpit.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Bridging Questions
Message-ID:  <20010926202939.E19931@acidpit.org>

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I'm trying to create a small bridge using FreeBSD 4.3, mainly for
testing purposes at the moment. The goal, is to have a box we can put in
front of servers when the bandwidth consumption on them gets out of
hand. Here's a pathetic diagram of what the layout looks like:

       /------{switch}
      /
    {hub}---{bridge}---{server}

In the bridge kernel config, I have the following:

##--
options		IPFIREWALL
options		IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
options		DUMMYNET
options		BRIDGE
##---

I made a few adjustments to the script 'ether.bridge' which I found in
/usr/share/examples/netgraph - Basically, just adding the ethernet cards
to the script and removing the local_if.

Once I ran the script, it basically brought down the entire hub, all the
way to the switch. Fun stuff, thank god for development networks. I
suppose my question is... What did I do wrong?

-- 
Rob Hough

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