Sebastian, good day.
Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:02:45AM +0200, Sebastian Mellmann wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 7.2 machine with ipfw dummynet working as
> a bridge.
>
> I've tried this tutorial:
>
> http://www.scalabledesign.com/articles/dummynet.html
>
> But it seems that the 'BRIDGE' option for the kernel is deprecated (see
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-May/175704.html)
Yeah, BRIDGE is obsoleted now.
> So my kernel config now looks like this:
>
> device if_bridge
> options IPFIREWALL
> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT
> options DUMMYNET
> options HZ=1000
>
> I've compiled the kernel successfully, but I'm not able to set any
> bridge options.
>
> I've tried to enable bridge mode in ipfw with:
>
> sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
>
> and got
>
> sysctl: unknown oid 'net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw'
>
> Am I missing something?
Yeah, seems like you hadn't yet read "man if_bridge" -- it has the
collection of relevant sysctl variables in section "PACKET FILTERING".
Moreover, man page has instructions on how to get bridge interfaces
up and running.
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