From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 28 18:41:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from superconductor.rush.net (superconductor.rush.net [208.9.155.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFE437B43C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost) by superconductor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA08146; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:41:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:41:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Siobhan Patricia Lynch X-Sender: trish@superconductor.rush.net To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Boyd R. Faulkner" , "Peter S. Housel" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network bridge on current. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: I would assume that code hasn;t changed, it works with ipfw, man bridge: options BRIDGE in the kernel config file, and is controlled by two sysctl variables: net.link.ether.bridge Set to 1 to enable bridging, set to 0 to disable it net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw I assume he's trying to mimic my slashdot kludge, which I wouldn;t recommend unless the issue is you can;t change the network topology. -Trish > hmmmm, > > netgraph's bridging code is more direct but it can not > do IP filtering on the packets that are en-route. This is because it > is a purely MAC-layer service. > > I am not sure about Luigi's bridging code. I know the dummynet stuff > seems to connect with the ipfw code but I don't think that the > bridge code does... (I may be wrong) So I don't know how you plan on > filtering the bridged segments.. > > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:11:54AM -0700, Peter S. Housel wrote: > > > > I am wondering how to do network bridging on current. The description > > > > in the handbook seems to be out of date as the sysctl IODs are no longer > > > > in evidence. Does loading ng_bridge substitute for building the kernel > > > > with OPTIONS BRIDGE? > > > > > > Excuse my ignorance (and curiousity), but wouldn't it be cheaper to > > > just buy a switch? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > -Peter S. Housel- housel@acm.org http://members.home.com/housel/ > > > > I intend to use it as a firewall. The switch will live behind it. > > > > Boyd > > > > -- > > Boyd Faulkner "...but the chocolate at > > faulkner@asgard.hos.net Rumpelmayer's is great..." > > http://asgard.hos.net/~faulkner -- A. Crowley Book of Lies > > 1011101 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > __ Trish Lynch FreeBSD - The Power to Serve trish@bsdunix.net Rush Networking trish@rush.net VA Linux Systems trish@valinux.com O|S|D|N trish@osdn.com --- "I said 'If love has these conditions, I don't understand those songs you love.' She said 'This is not a love song This isn't fantasyland.'" -Rush, Cold Fire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message