In some email I received from Waldemar Czajkowski, sie wrote: [ Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi. > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3. I set up bridge on two NIC's with one IP betwen two > windows subnets 10.x.x.x. > When I switch my firewall on with default block in and out and other rules > everything seems to be fine. I only have many entries in message log : > > kernel: em0: bridge dropped broadcast packet > > what is wrong whit it ? > > I'm can't find anything about this.
I think you'll find it is doing exactly what the message says. The problem here is that dropping broadcast packets could mean that things like IPv6 neighbour discovery will stop working fox hosts on different sides trying to talk to each other. Darren
