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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:56:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? (more info)
Message-ID:  <20010204062837.94849.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010203220223.86591.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>

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Earlier, I reported an ARP problem on a 4.2-STABLE bridge system.

A few people wrote me privately, advising me to include a firewall
rule passing UDP packets on port 2054 to/from the IP address 0.0.0.0.

I've tried this, but it doesn't help any.  I should mention, though,
that I don't think this firewall rule is relevant in any case.

First, the "port 2054" kludge doesn't appear to be in the networking
code any more.  I grep'ed the entire -STABLE base source for any
references to UDP port 2054, and I found nothing at all except for
the commented-out line in the etc/rc.firewall file.  As far as I'm
aware, bridging of non-IP packets is now controlled by the kernel's
default "ipfw" rule -- and, yes, I do have the options IPFIREWALL
and IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT in my configuration.

Second, I'm not talking about bridging of ARP packets anyway.  I'm
trying to connect directly to the bridge machine -- but the bridge
is failing to respond to requests for its own hardware address on
its "rl0" interface.

Rich Wales         richw@webcom.com         http://www.webcom.com/richw/



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