Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 01:51:12 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BRIDGE breaks ARP? (more info) Message-ID: <3A7D2610.E2CD1AD0@elischer.org> References: <20010204062837.94849.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>
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Rich Wales wrote: > > Earlier, I reported an ARP problem on a 4.2-STABLE bridge system. > > A few people wrote me privately, advising me to include a firewall > rule passing UDP packets on port 2054 to/from the IP address 0.0.0.0. > > I've tried this, but it doesn't help any. I should mention, though, > that I don't think this firewall rule is relevant in any case. > > First, the "port 2054" kludge doesn't appear to be in the networking > code any more. I grep'ed the entire -STABLE base source for any > references to UDP port 2054, and I found nothing at all except for > the commented-out line in the etc/rc.firewall file. As far as I'm > aware, bridging of non-IP packets is now controlled by the kernel's > default "ipfw" rule -- and, yes, I do have the options IPFIREWALL > and IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT in my configuration. > > Second, I'm not talking about bridging of ARP packets anyway. I'm > trying to connect directly to the bridge machine -- but the bridge > is failing to respond to requests for its own hardware address on > its "rl0" interface. try using netgraph bridging instead. > > Rich Wales richw@webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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