From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 18 14:12:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6128837B404 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B516C43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (12-234-89-252.client.attbi.com[12.234.89.252]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003031822120605200l9758e>; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:12:06 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2IMC5eq076050; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:12:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2IMC0TR076049; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:12:00 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: IAccounts Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ether_input: drop bdg packet Message-ID: <20030318221200.GD74853@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <20030313130518.I50632-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313130518.I50632-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:13:29PM -0500, IAccounts wrote: > I have 5.0 running as a bridge/ipfw firewall configuration, which is > seemingly working very well in an ISP environment. However, there is > something that I don't know if it is an error, or normal. On the console, > I get the following message many times per second: > > ether_input: drop bdg packet > > I am suspecting that this is just a logging issue within part of the > bridge/ipfw code, but I would like some feeback if possible to what > exactly this is for. > > I have looked through bridge.c, ipfw.c, bpf.c, bpf_filter.c and many > others for the answer. There is much reference to DROP in bridge.c, but > nothing that looks like the console message. I would really like to find > out why this is happening, and how to make some changes, so I would > appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of the code for > this as opposed to or in addition to the answer. The message is in src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. However, it was removed in revision 1.34 which is probably why you cannot find it. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message