Bridging

[Matthias Schuendehuette]

Hi,

I'm heavily working on a filtering bridge with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE...

First I tried to configure the host (a HP DL380) with three interfaces:
fxp0 and fxp1 for bridging (without ip-addresses) and bge0 for 
ssh-access with an ip-address - this does not work so far because ipfw 
obviously cannot get the tree interfaces managed right (but that's not 
my last word on this... :-)

After I gave up on this, I tried with only two interfaces (bge0 and 
bge1) where bge0 also has an IP-address. After much try and error I got 
it working, but the configuration is more complicated than I expected.

The central point is, that I first have to configure the various 
interfaces (bge0 up, bge1 up, vlan0/IP and vlan1) and afterwards may 
configure the bridge, i.e. set 'net.link.ether.bridge.config=....'.

This means that on a filtering bridge you can't use /etc/sysctl.conf for 
bridge configuration because /etc/rc.d/sysctl is executed before /etc/
rc.d/netif and in this order it doesn't work.

Short question: Is this intended behaviour and public knowledge?

Should a /etc/rc.d/bridge be added?

-- 
Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette	<msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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