From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 1 13:20:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3247637B40F for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA87517; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (more) 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, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > 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? Yes you can.. it's the only one you can... teh others will accept addresses but they won't work... > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message