From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 5 0:55:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC1037B6A7; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f158srC20881; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:54:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:54:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Masachika ISHIZUKA Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? Message-ID: <20010205005453.L26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010205043816.18207.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> <200102050629.f156Tel18525@iguana.aciri.org> <20010205170801Q.ishizuka@onion.ish.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010205170801Q.ishizuka@onion.ish.org>; from ishizuka@ish.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:08:01PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Masachika ISHIZUKA [010205 00:09] wrote: > > May i suggest to try a recent (feb.2, 2001) version of the code ? > > there have been long-standing problems with bridging on 4.x and > > in particular some related to the handling of broadcast packets (ARP > > requests are among them) which hopefully are fixed now. > > You need to default your firewall to open. > > I cvsuped three hours ago and the same ARP troubles happened. > The RCS header of /sys/net/bridge.c is > "$FreeBSD: src/sys/net/bridge.c,v 1.16.2.12 2001/02/01 20:25:08 luigi Exp $". > > I use two fxp (Intel Pro100B) NICs. This machine was worked > fine with about two weeks older codes. I had a problem recently (it wound up being a bad network cable), but while going through the code I noticed that one of the routines was changed to return 0x40000, which may somehow conflict with 'normal' return values. In any case the 0x40000 should be a #define. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message