Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:58:58 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: ishizuka@ish.org (Masachika ISHIZUKA) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? Message-ID: <200102051658.f15Gwwm23608@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010205213153T.ishizuka@onion.ish.org> from Masachika ISHIZUKA at "Feb 5, 2001 9:31:53 pm"
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> > can you repeat exactly what the problem was (bridge machine not > > responding to ARP requests ?) and what is your exact setup (i ... > The problem is that the bridge machine can not communicate any > other machines unless net.link.ether.bridge=0. That is no response > from/to any other machines to ping command. well that description is a bit too generic to help. does the machine doing the ping have an arp entry for the bridge ? can you see (using tcpdump) the ARP and ping requests and replies on the client doing the ping and on the interface of the bridge ? it was my understanding that the problem lied in failure to reply to ARP messages. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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