Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: >> Which way do you go? > In this case I can take any of them
Perhaps you will freeze in your tracks indefinitely due to confusion. Or perhaps you will go around the entire block a few times before making a decision ;) > Anyways,- Today i got some time to play around and i tried to configure > the machine as bridge. > I added device if_bridge to kernel > then i added the code to the rc.conf > > cloned_interfaces="bridge0" > ifconfig_bridge0="addm sk0 addm sk1 up" > ifconfig_sk0="up" > ifconfig_sk1="up" > now, i dun have any network address assigned to any of the interface and > connect the two lan cards to two other machines and try to ping those > machines from each other. but no success. Did the bridge interface actually come up? > ... do you think, this is as expected..? (i think bridge does not need > to have any IP address..) It depends. Are you doing any sort of firewalling? What is the IP addressing info on the two end hosts? Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"