Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:24:45 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ether_input: drop bdg packet Message-ID: <20030319102258.K54447-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030318221200.GD74853@blossom.cjclark.org>
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> > I have 5.0 running as a bridge/ipfw firewall configuration, which is > > seemingly working very well in an ISP environment. However, there is > > something that I don't know if it is an error, or normal. On the console, > > I get the following message many times per second: > > > > ether_input: drop bdg packet > > > > I am suspecting that this is just a logging issue within part of the > > bridge/ipfw code, but I would like some feeback if possible to what > > exactly this is for. > > > > I have looked through bridge.c, ipfw.c, bpf.c, bpf_filter.c and many > > others for the answer. There is much reference to DROP in bridge.c, but > > nothing that looks like the console message. I would really like to find > > out why this is happening, and how to make some changes, so I would > > appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of the code for > > this as opposed to or in addition to the answer. > > The message is in src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. However, it was removed > in revision 1.34 which is probably why you cannot find it. Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity, if it was removed, why does the message still appear? Steve > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.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
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