Bridge transparent proxy

[Julian Elischer]

G E E K wrote:
> 
> 
> Did you check if the bridge.ko and ipfw.ko modules are loaded with the 
> kernel or not?
> 
> Regards,
> Saleh
> 
> 
>> From: Antonio Tommasi <antonio.tommasi at unile.it>
>> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Bridge transparent proxy
>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:06:54 +0200
>>
>> Hi to all i'm trying to installa a bridge transparent proxy on a 
>> freebsd 6.2 with ipfw and squid.
>> I have two machine;
>>  on the first one i've enabled option bridge in kernel option and then 
>> i've recompile it and set variable sysctl in /etc/sysctl.conf
>> on the second i've set bridge_load module on the boot/loader.conf and 
>> set the same variable from above in /etc/sysctl.conf
>> Naturally i've used the correct name of network interface in the 
>> configuration file on the two machine.
>> I've the same configuration in firewall rules and squid in the two 
>> machine.
>> It works only on the machine with the kernel recompiled with bridge 
>> module.
>> Somebody can help me?
>> Thanks in advance
>> Antonio

you can not do 'fwd' in a bridge.
(I assume htat is what you want to do)
 you need to be routing..

bridges do everythign at layer2
fwd only works at layer3.


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