Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgraph bridging: what is LOCAL_IFACE? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110011454150.37593-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110011200370.86630-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > If you want any of these packets to also be passed to the local machine > you should select one of the local interfaces (any will do) and add it in > the LOCAL_INTERFACE entry. This entry specifies to the bridging code that > the upper (i.e. KERNEL side) of that interface should also be added to the > list of recipients of the packets being worked on. > > If you do not do this, the interfaces are linked to each other by the > bridging code, but the local machine is not party to the traffic. No copy > of the packets is sent up to it.. (this is a vaild configuration...) Ah. So you can't ifconfig the virtual bridge interface (e.g. bnet0) and configure IP protocol information on it, then? If not, I misunderstood how the bridge interface behaves. I was thinking that it acted more or less like a BVI interface does on a Cisco router. Specifying the LOCAL_INTERFACE will work for me, though. Thanks. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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