Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:13:50 -0500 From: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ARP, bridging, and ipfw Message-ID: <20010212161340.A38417@teardrop.org>
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I'm experimenting with using a FreeBSD box as a transparent firewall.
Looking at /etc/rc.firewall, I see:
# If you're using 'options BRIDGE', uncomment the following line to pass ARP
#${fwcmd} add 300 pass udp from 0.0.0.0 2054 to 0.0.0.0
I found it curious that I'd had no problems with ARP before adding that
line to the rules I'm using, and that even after adding it as the first
rule in the list, it never matches, even after I flush my local ARP
cache and force some ARP requests.
Are these lines in /etc/rc.firewall deprecated? Do ARP packets get
excetped from the ipfw rules now or something?
Also, what on earth does ARP have to do with UDP sourced from port 2054?
Just curious,
-James
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