From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 1 12: 0:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cornflake.nickelkid.com (cornflake.nickelkid.com [216.116.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D6437B40C for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by cornflake.nickelkid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA37648; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:00:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgraph bridging: what is LOCAL_IFACE? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > If you want any of these packets to also be passed to the local machine > you should select one of the local interfaces (any will do) and add it in > the LOCAL_INTERFACE entry. This entry specifies to the bridging code that > the upper (i.e. KERNEL side) of that interface should also be added to the > list of recipients of the packets being worked on. > > If you do not do this, the interfaces are linked to each other by the > bridging code, but the local machine is not party to the traffic. No copy > of the packets is sent up to it.. (this is a vaild configuration...) Ah. So you can't ifconfig the virtual bridge interface (e.g. bnet0) and configure IP protocol information on it, then? If not, I misunderstood how the bridge interface behaves. I was thinking that it acted more or less like a BVI interface does on a Cisco router. Specifying the LOCAL_INTERFACE will work for me, though. Thanks. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message