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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:29:40 -0800
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <data@irev.net>
To:        "Peter Pentchev" <roam@orbitel.bg>, "Mason Harding" <mharding@marketnews.com>
Cc:        <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bridging and IPF
Message-ID:  <002d01c0b7b5$11692180$035778d8@sherline.net>
References:  <20010328111618.C9865@pir.net> <BGENLPKDCIBENFNNNAIDIENBCAAA.mharding@marketnews.com> <20010328211608.A10861@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:54:36PM -0500, Mason Harding wrote:
> > Hi.  Has anyone had much luck with Bridging and IPF?  As soon as I
enable
> > bridging both IPF and IPFW stop filtering at all.  If I set them both to
> > deny everything, they still let all packets pass.  When I set
> > net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 my system sits there for a second and then
the
> > kernel crashes and reboots the machine.  I can get
> > net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw set to 1 without a crash if I have no IP
address
> > on any of the bridged interfaces, but I need an IP address so I can use
my
> > external syslog server and ssh into the firewall(untill I know its
running
> > well).  Please help? Oh yah, its FreeBSD 4.2.
>
> Is this a plain vanilla 4.2-RELEASE, or some kind of -stable?
> In any case, could you update to the most recent -stable (4.3-RC at
> the moment) and see if the problems persist?  There have been MANY
> fixes to the routing/bridging code in the last two months.

Yeah there was a kernel panic issue with RELEASE and some older STABLE I
believe.  I use bridge+ipfw, and have used it for quite some time (since
they fixed it).  cvsup to STABLE (or RC)  :)


>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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