This addition to the bridge(4) man page may make it a little
easier for novices to use the combination of a bridge and pf.

diff -u bridge.4.a bridge.4
--- share/man/man4/bridge.4.a  Mon Oct  1 15:31:04 2007
+++ share/man/man4/bridge.4    Mon Oct  1 15:36:54 2007
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@
 .Xr ip6 4
 datagram; if so, the datagram is run through the
 pf interface so that it can be filtered.
+The datagram is sent to pf as input on the incoming interface and as output
+on all interfaces on which it is forwarded.
+The pf functionality never sees a packet attributed to the bridge interface.
 .Sh IOCTLS
 A
 .Nm

Geoff Steckel

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