How to use if_bridge

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sat Apr 15 09:54:00 UTC 2006


"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:

> On Friday 14 April 2006 21:37, Fabian Keil wrote:

> > Depending on your firewall setup you might have to disable
> > some of the net.link.bridge sysctls as well.
> 
> I don't have any firewalls in the kernel for simplicity at this stage.

If I'm not mistaken you have to disable net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip
then. From the if_bridge man page:

|net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip  Set to 1 to only allow IP packets to
|                             pass when packet filtering is enabled (subject to
|                             firewall rules), set to 0 to unconditionally
|                             pass all non-IP Ethernet frames.

It's enabled by default.

Fabian
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