Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:16:00 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org, tyler@neo.tamu.edu Subject: Re: Bridging + pf in a production environment Message-ID: <200501131316.11379.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200501130757.j0D7vE5V028776@smtp-relay.tamu.edu> References: <200501130757.j0D7vE5V028776@smtp-relay.tamu.edu>
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--nextPart3425888.IxU8yVtZud Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 13 January 2005 08:57, Ballance, Robert T wrote: > Howdy list, > > My university is starting to seriously look into migrating from our > convoluted Slackware Linux + iptables bridging solution to a FreeBSD + pf > bridging solution. > > I've been reading around about it, after the mention by Solarflux about > there being problems currently with bridging with pf on FreeBSD. Which > worries me, he mentioned the option of using OpenBSD, which, is an option, > but whatever we commit to, we're going to commit to for a good couple of > years. (We have been using Slackware for about 2 years thus far) > > Is anybody currently working on bringing of if_bridge from Net/OpenBSD as > Max suggests > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2005-January/000734.html) > > If not, if anybody could really outline how fixing this problem could be > fixed (past maybe just importing if_bridge) I might be able to convince my > employer to pay me to work on it ;) > (after all, I'm just a measely student worker :P) > > Let me know :) There is somebody working on it, but it is yet unclear how long until we se= e=20 results from that. Meanwhile, you might want to try the patch for bridge.c= =20 from Pyun YongHyeon which improves the situation already:=20 http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari/patches/bridge.patch There might be a newer version of this patch here:=20 http://www.pfsense.org/downloads/bridge.patch.041215 =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart3425888.IxU8yVtZud Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB5maLXyyEoT62BG0RAt5CAJ9/dfa6hAVNbWRZFLsMzmB0WbuYgQCeOYbQ jJSvdOwtRYU65/u6+u6/rqM= =vsSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3425888.IxU8yVtZud--
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