In some email I received from Crist J. Clark, sie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:15:24PM -0600, RJ45 wrote: > > > > HEllo, > > I know that IPFIREWALL ipfw on FreeBSD works fine with bridging between > > interfaces. > > What about ipf ? IS it possible to filter using ipf on a bridge between 2 > > interfaces ?? > > on OpenBSD this has always been possible. I know that there were > > difficulties to do so on FreeBSD, I wanted to ask right now what is the > > state of the problem. > > I already asked on FreeBSD mailing list but noone gave me a clear answer > > thanks > > Which list? I'm surprised I didn't see it. Basic support for IPFilter > bridging is included in 5-CURRENT. Here are the patches for 4-STABLE, > > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ > > Feel free to try them out and report any problems. I can try to deal > with troubles, but I don't have a lot of free time at the moment to > work on this.
Now that 4.6 has been pressed, are you thinking of merging these changes into the FreeBSD 4.x branch, at all ? Hmmm, if it currently only supports inbound filtering, it might be an idea to wait until it does both in and outbound filtering before merging. Thoughts ? Darren
