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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

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