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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:06:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Anthony Volodkin <anthonyv@brainlink.com>
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Subject: Re: Forwarding UDP packets
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Anthony Volodkin wrote:

> PopTop also uses proxy arp supposedly (i got that option enabled).   I 
> even read that that feature is supposed to allow broadcasts to function 
> properly.  It doesn't however.
> 
> A friend suggested i try to bridge two interfaces (tun0 and fxp0). I 
> first tried using briding implemented by 'options BRIDGE'.  That failed 
> to set the tun0 into promiscious mode and hence did not produce the 
> desired effect.  Then I tried using the 
> /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge script to bridge the two 
> interfaces.  That failed as well.  Netgraph complained that 'tun0' does 
> not exist, even though it was up and running.  Any more clues on 
> forwarding packets with destination 255.255.255.255 across interfaces 
> are welcome.

bridging only works with ethernets...

tun0 is not an ethernet.


please try mpd



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