I have a problem with the

options BRIDGE

in the PicoBSD package ...

Simply, the bridge doesn't work ;(

With my greatest disappointment, the bridge does not seem to work even in my bsd-box kernel.

My setup:

FreeBSD Box:

A Cyrix 6x86MX-pr300 with 32 mb ram:

- two PCI NE2000 cards (chipset RealTek 8029) configured as ed1 & ed2

- bridging enabled in the kernel with the options BRIDGE & the sysctl variable

Two PC clients in the network:

one is set as IP 192.168.1.2

the other is IP 192.168.1.100

I simply PING from one client to another to see packets going trough the bridge.

With 3.1-RELEASE : no way. The bridge is correctly initialized, the cards put in PROMISC mode, but no banana.

The sad story : the PicoBSD disk downloaded from Lugi's page

http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi

WORKS perfectly.

Even with two el-cheapo Realtek 8139 (fast-ethernet 10/100) cards (officially unsupported).

It does all by itself: boots & the bridge code starts working.

Now: is anyone here using the BRIDGE options in Fbsd 3.1-RELEASE ?

And under PicoBSD ?

Results ?

Tnx in advance,

Wyk'99

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