FreeBSD 6.0 - ipfw fwd with bridge mode

[Julian Elischer]

Özkan KIRIK wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i am trying to forward packets via ipfw in bridge mode.
> is there any patch for 6.0-Release?
> 
> thanks for your interests,
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there are two patches to do this with 4.x

one by luigi and one by a company I know of.

neither is exactly correct for 6.0

The simplest one just "accepts" the packet as local which means that it
gets run through ipfw again in the IP stack at which time it is
REALLY forwarded.