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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:48:23 +0200
From:      "freebsd-question@premsoft.co.za" <freebsd-questions@premsoft.co.za>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPF, IPv6 and a bridge
Message-ID:  <401BC037.20009@premsoft.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20040130134306.GA17621@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <20040130083808.GA60129@cartman.south-park> <20040130134306.GA17621@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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David Malone wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:38:08AM +0100, Jeroen Ubbink wrote:
>  
>
>>ipfw doesn't seem to block router advertisements on a
>>bridge either. Is this just a problem with both those firewall tools or is
>>it a problem in FreeBSD?
>>    
>>
>
>Bridged packets are special and are not usually firewalled. I could be
>mistaken, but I don't think you can get ipf to filter bridged packets
>in 4.9. You could use ipfw2 to do it though:
>
>	sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
>	ipfw add deny layer2 mac-type ipv6 recv tun1
>
>(You'll need to turn on ipfw2 to do this - see the ipfw man page for
>details).
>
>	David.
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Actually, I think it is possible
I have not tested this, but there is also a sysctl knob for ipf:
net.link.ether.bridge_ipf: 0

Regards
Jaco



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