Re: ipfw broken with bridge under 5.x (5.3 and 5.4)

El Miércoles, 4 de Mayo de 2005 16:24, Josef Karthauser escribió:
> It appear that ipfw doesn't work with bridge in 5.3 and 5.4.  The
> symptoms are that the bridge stops forwarding packets altogether,
> for me a few minutes after it is set up.  It takes a
>
> # net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=0 && sleep 5 &&
> net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
>
> to get it back up and running, which it does, but only for a few
> minutes before it stops working again.  The five second sleep is
> sometimes too long, and sometimes not enough time.
>
> Would someone in the know be able to help me to trouble shoot it?
> (I'm scared of ipfw! :).
>
> Thanks!
> Joe

Are your rules stopping arp or so?  Remember make pass this kind of 
traffic at layer2.

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  josemi