Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:48:46 +0200 From: Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: if_bridge and ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Message-ID: <4663DFFE.90203@ide.resurscentrum.se>
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I'm havinf trouble sending packets to the ethernet broadcast address on an if_bridge. It seems as if the onley packets sent from my router to ethernet broadcast is arp. I have the following conf: bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast x.x.x.x ether 00:90:4b:1a:xx:xx member: em0.10 flags=1<LEARNING> member: em0.10 flags=1<LEARNING> + additional ~80 if's sysctl's: net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip=1 net.link.ether.ipfw=0 net.link.bridge.ipfw=1 net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge=1 net.link.bridge.pfil_member=1 net.link.bridge.ipfw_arp=1 net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 In detail the problem is related to dhcpd working an if_bridge. I know that if_bridge handles arp/revarp in a different manner than other traffic to ethernet broadcast, could this be a bug? //Jon
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