bridged ipfw problem in FreeBSD 5.2beta

Ganbold ganbold at micom.mng.net
Mon Dec 8 20:28:53 PST 2003


Hi,

Thank you for all who helped me. It seems that arp packets weren't pass 
through firewall.
I added the rule as don suggested and since then it is working well for 
last 25 hours.

Ganbold


At 10:26 PM 05.12.2003, you wrote:
>From: Ganbold [mailto:ganbold at micom.mng.net]
>
>  ... bridging firewall ...
>
> ># Allowing connections through localhost.
> >${fwcmd} add 300 pass all from any to any via lo0
> ># pass ARP
> >${fwcmd} add 301 pass udp from 0.0.0.0 2054 to 0.0.0.0
>
>the comment at least is not right, arp is not udp.
>
>maybe something like "add 301 allow layer2 mac-type arp"
>instead?
>
>--don



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