From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 7:24:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC4737B401; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:24:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB6B43F93; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:24:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (localhost.northnetworks.ca [127.0.0.1]) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2JFOjhN055655; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:24:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h2JFOjYM055652; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:24:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: diana.northnetworks.ca: iaccounts owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:24:45 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Bertrand To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ether_input: drop bdg packet In-Reply-To: <20030318221200.GD74853@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: <20030319102258.K54447-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have 5.0 running as a bridge/ipfw firewall configuration, which is > > seemingly working very well in an ISP environment. However, there is > > something that I don't know if it is an error, or normal. On the console, > > I get the following message many times per second: > > > > ether_input: drop bdg packet > > > > I am suspecting that this is just a logging issue within part of the > > bridge/ipfw code, but I would like some feeback if possible to what > > exactly this is for. > > > > I have looked through bridge.c, ipfw.c, bpf.c, bpf_filter.c and many > > others for the answer. There is much reference to DROP in bridge.c, but > > nothing that looks like the console message. I would really like to find > > out why this is happening, and how to make some changes, so I would > > appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of the code for > > this as opposed to or in addition to the answer. > > The message is in src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. However, it was removed > in revision 1.34 which is probably why you cannot find it. Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity, if it was removed, why does the message still appear? Steve > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message