On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:13:29PM -0500, IAccounts wrote:
> I have 5.0 running as a bridge/ipfw firewall configuration, which is
> seemingly working very well in an ISP environment. However, there is
> something that I don't know if it is an error, or normal. On the console,
> I get the following message many times per second:
>
> ether_input: drop bdg packet
>
> I am suspecting that this is just a logging issue within part of the
> bridge/ipfw code, but I would like some feeback if possible to what
> exactly this is for.
>
> I have looked through bridge.c, ipfw.c, bpf.c, bpf_filter.c and many
> others for the answer. There is much reference to DROP in bridge.c, but
> nothing that looks like the console message. I would really like to find
> out why this is happening, and how to make some changes, so I would
> appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of the code for
> this as opposed to or in addition to the answer.
The message is in src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. However, it was removed
in revision 1.34 which is probably why you cannot find it.
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