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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:15:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc:        Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bridging code in 4.2RC1 still not fixed
Message-ID:  <200011160615.eAG6FQg30772@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <006101c04e71$0e25c080$c70b200a@FairIsaac.com> "from Thomas T. Veldhouse at Nov 14, 2000 01:28:23 pm"

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Thomas T. Veldhouse writes:
> I have the same problem with Linksys cards (10/100 TX - version 2.0 and
> version 4.0) using the dc driver.  I also had this problem with previous ISA
> NE2000 cards using the ed driver.  In both cases, right before the reboot,
> everything would slow down and suddenly, I would hear a beep from the other
> room as the box rebooted.  I was never able to catch it in action.  It
> always happened with bridging AND ipfw.
> 
> Will bridging work [better] with IPFILTER?

FYI-

If folks just need to do plain bridging and NOT dummynet and NOT
ipfw filtering of Ethernet packets (normal ipfw filtering is ok)
then you can use ng_bridge(4) as an alternative to bridge(4).
See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge for an example.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com


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