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Date:      Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:01:06 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: if_bridge and IPv6?
Message-ID:  <200508300101.20432.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <1125351478.2344.44.camel@localhost>
References:  <1125346643.2344.31.camel@localhost> <20050829211720.GA55642@heff.fud.org.nz> <1125351478.2344.44.camel@localhost>

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On Monday 29 August 2005 23:37, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > From what I can tell this is from the bridge itself, does bridging work
> > between ipv6 hosts on either side of the bridge?
>
> Hmm...I haven't tried that yet.  Unfortunately I'm not in close
> proximity to the system in question at the moment, so it'll be a few
> hours (evening, San Francisco time) until I can try this.  I'll test and
> report back.
>
> > I will try and replicate this setup tonight.
>
> Many thanks!

Just a quick note: if_bridge does IPv6 filtering (in contrast to the old=20
bridge code).  So you may want to check your settings there.

> Bruce.
>
> PS.  Food for thought:  Should bridge devices have IFF_MULTICAST set?
> Mine doesn't.
>
> hornet# ifconfig bridge0
> bridge0: flags=3D41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500
>         inet (foo) netmask 0xffffff00
>         inet6 (bar) prefixlen 64
>         ether ac:de:48:cd:e2:32
>         priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
>         member: sis1 flags=3D3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
>         member: sis0 flags=3D3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>

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