Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ted Wisniewski <ted@wiz.plymouth.edu>
To: jesper@skriver.dk (Jesper Skriver)
Cc: nevans@nextvenue.com (Nick Evans), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG ('freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG ('freebsd-net@freebsd.org')
Subject: Re: bridging
Message-ID: <200007061714.e66HE6B85065@wiz.plymouth.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000706182820.B54678@skriver.dk> from Jesper Skriver at "Jul 6, 2000 06:28:20 pm"
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(* On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: (* > Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to (* > make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that (* > on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast (* > packets? I have fxp0 and fxp1 acting as a bridge, fxp0 sees all kinds of (* > http traffic, napster, IM, etc. but fxp1 sees only multi/broadcast packets. (* (* Bridging will only bridge unicast packet's who's destination MAC adress is (* on the other side of the bridge. How about RIP? I recently tried to upgrade my FreeBSD 4.0 bridging-firewall to CURRENT and I could no longer get RIP packets through (reliably) (even with no rules and "DEFAULT_TOACCEPT") and had all kinds of routing problems... Routers could not learn the route out because RIP was not going through. Of course I backed back off to 4.0-RELEASE and life was good again... I sent in a PR but have not heard anything yet. Advice? Thanks -- | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Computer Services ted@wiz.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth State College tedw@tigger.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 HTTP: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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