From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 27 14:44:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@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 1BE3537B407 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:44:43 -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 PAA67004; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Robert Hough Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ng_bridge In-Reply-To: <20010927165304.C23689@acidpit.org> Message-ID: 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 well, maybe if you told us what you modified, and what happenned..... On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Robert Hough wrote: > Yesterday, I used a script on my bridge that pretty much brought down > the entire network segment it was connected to. The script in question, > was found in /usr/share/examples/netgraph -- called 'ether.bridge'. I > modified the script, and ran it -- boom. Problems galore! > > At the time, the bridge did *not* function correctly. I was using a > couple of cards that didn't support bridging. I have since corrected > this, and on a smaller network repeated the same steps. This time, > everything is working correctly. > > My question, is really this. Does anyone have an idea as to why this > caused so much trouble to begin with, and how can I protect my network > from allowing this to happen again? > > -- > Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.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