From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 14 19:32:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC8F37B71A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from babbleon.org ([66.26.250.181]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:32:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3AB037BB.EADF0432@babbleon.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:32:11 -0500 From: The Babbler Organization: None to speak of X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? References: <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org> <15021.46309.150521.925816@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AADBAB8.36039542@babbleon.org> <20010313104711.B6592@pir.net> <3AAF047F.341981B2@babbleon.org> <20010314194326.X20830@speedy.gsinet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think I'm having a cultural/linguistic problem. In Linux, there is is a "stable" version and a "development" version, but even the "stable" version is less stable than the released version if you catch it between releases. I'm starting to "get it" that this is not the case with FreeBSD, so I'll check the FreeBSD handbook and find out how to upgrade in the middle of a release cycle and and see if that clears up some of the trouble . . . I'll post the results here once that's done; it'll probably be a couple of days. Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 00:41 -0500, The Babbler wrote: > > > > I read the FreeBSD readme. And I've had a nubmer of posting in > > the emultors group as I got things working there, too. The > > bridging would never work for me, but my final conclusion is > > that my card doesn't work with bridging, I guess. Only some > > cards do. (It says *that* in the handbook and the bridge man > > page.) > > It has been stated in the thread before, but let me repeat it: > You have this experience of "bridging doesn't work" with a > -RELEASE. Did you ever consider using -STABLE? You might want > to visit the cvs-all archive and look out for luigi@FreeBSD.org's > commit messages to RELENG_4. There's been a lot of them related > to bridging lately (late January, I guess). > > I don't know if simple boot / fixit floppies will enable you to > check this setup. But you might want to update your system after > reading the commit messages. > > And then there have been recent threads about plugging some > netgraph nodes together to form a router / bridge / packet > filter. NG has been around for quite a while (4.0?), but I > understand recent development made it even more suitable for this > kind of job. It will be worth a look, too. > > virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 > Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message