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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:44:48 -0600
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   spontaneous reboot with bridging and firewalling two dc NICs
Message-ID:  <005301c04288$568c61c0$c70b200a@FairIsaac.com>

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Hi.

Yesterday I emailed the list asking if it was possible to use two dc cards
for bridging.  I am excited to say that it worked.  I was trying to utilize
my 4 IP addresses behind my firewall.  This leads to the problem that this
email is about.

I did some test downloads from various sites to get some not so scientific
benchmarks and then I ran nmap against my newly exposed PCs to make sure
that my LAN is still secure.  During these trials, my PC doing the bridging
spontaneously rebooted 3 times.  Always during network usage.  Nothing at
all was appended to the logs.  I noticed this problem about 6 months ago
when I tried it with two ISA ed based cards.  At the time I attributed it to
the driver, but now I can surmise that it is the bridging code, perhaps only
in combination with ipfw functionality.

Unfortunately, this is my primary gateway and firewall, and I can not afford
to experiment with this box - so I had to go back to my old NAT setup.

Does anybody have any suggestions?  Is there any documentation on how I
might use proxy ARP to get the same affect (I have four public IP addresses
and I want one or two for the firewall box and the other two on my LAN).

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net



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