Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:47:55 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: How to use if_bridge Message-ID: <200604142048.20189.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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I am trying to use if_bridge with OpenVPN and I am having some trouble with
basic bridging.
I am testing it on my laptop with has an ath interface which uses WPA to a
Linksys WRT54G and then to a FreeBSD gateway.
I have tried both configuring ath0 with an IP as well as bridge0 but neither
work. It seems that none of the packets from ath0 appear on bridge0.
ie..
ath0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:90:96:c1:90:54
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/48Mbps)
status: associated
ssid dons channel 6 bssid 00:13:10:9b:52:d4
authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpowmax 35
protmode CTS burst roaming MANUAL bintval 100
bridge0: flags=8143<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.2.102 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
ether ac:de:48:67:74:b6
priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
member: ath0 flags=7<LEARNING,DISCOVER,STP>
port 4 priority 128 path cost 55 blocking
When I run tcpdump..
[inchoate 20:35] ~ >sudo tcpdump -ni bridge0
Password:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on bridge0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
20:35:30.586751 arp who-has 10.0.2.7 tell 10.0.2.102
[etc]
Whereas a tcpdump on ath0 shows no ARP packets..
I did the following to configure it..
killall devd [to stop it running dhclient]
/etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0
ifconfig bridge0 create
wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ifconfig bridge0 create
ifconfig bridge0 addm ath0
dhclient bridge0
I see the DHCPDISCOVER requests when I tcpdump bridge0 but they don't appear
on ath0.
If I run dhclient on ath0 it works fine for normal traffic but I don't see any
ath0 traffic on bridge0. If I create a tap interface (eg cat /dev/tap0) and
add it to the bridge (ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0) it sees no packets either.
bridge0 appears to learn no addresses..
[inchoate 20:46] ~ >ifconfig bridge0 addr
[inchoate 20:46] ~ >
Am I missing something obvious?
(This is on -current as of 27 Mar)
PS please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list.
Thanks.
--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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