help with options BRIDGE in freebsd 7.0

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by cp on 05/28/08 17:28>>
> I'd really appreciate if someone can shed some light on this for me. I'm
> attempting to build a layer2 sniffer using dummynet and ipfw but I'm
> having some problems building the new kernel with "options BRIDGE". It
> errors out with the message below. Any suggestions? 
> 
> -cp
> 
> lois# /usr/sbin/config LOIS 
> LOIS: unknown option "BRIDGE"
> freebsd version  = 7.0
> 
> lois# more LOIS | grep IP
> options         IPSEC
> options         IPSEC_FILTERTUNNEL
> options         IPSEC_DEBUG
> options         IPFIREWALL
> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100
> options         IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> options         IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> options         IPDIVERT
> options         IPFILTER
> options         IPFILTER_LOG
> lois# more LOIS | grep BR
> options         NETGRAPH_BRIDGE
> options         BRIDGE
> 
> lois# more LOIS | grep DUM
> options         DUMMYNET
> lois#
> 
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That's because the BRIDGE kernel option is deprecated in FreeBSD 7. Look
at if_bridge(4).