From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 4: 3:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bps.jodocus.org (c115139.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.115.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D45E37B416 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joost@localhost) by bps.jodocus.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2EC3uc64015; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:03:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from joost) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:03:56 +0100 From: Joost Bekkers To: mark pearce Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Set up bridge on FreeBSd 4.3 Message-ID: <20020314130356.A63989@bps.jodocus.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joost Bekkers , mark pearce , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from netchat@ananzi.co.za on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:49:23PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:49:23PM +0200, mark pearce wrote: > Hi all > > I'm hoping someone can help me with this one. > I want to set up a bridge on my firewall. it currently has > 3 cards, 1 external, 2 internal, and I want to set up > bridging in the 2 internal cards, I know OpenBSD can do > this, can this be done with FreeBSD 4.3. The man page does > say that it is still in development. Is this feature > available in STABLE ? It's even available in -RELEASE. Next to enabling the bridge with sysctl, make sure you set net.link.ether.bridge_cfg because the default is to bridge ALL ethernet interfaces. If you want to filter the traffic between the bridged interfaces, keep in mind that only ip packets pass through the ipfw rules. Greetz Joost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message