I've set up a bridge which works exactly as advertised. When I add a bandwith limit with dummynet, the bridge stops passing traffic. Here are the lines from my rc.conf file: ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" cloned_interfaces="bridge0" ifconfig_xl0="up" ifconfig_xl1="up" ifconfig_bridge0="addm xl0 addm xl1 up" firewall_enable="YES" firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" dummynet_enable="YES" Here is my ipfw.rules file: throttle=10.10.10.0/24 limit=1Mbit/s ipfw -q -f flush ipfw -q add allow all from any to any via bge0 ipfw -q add allow all from any to any via xl0 ipfw -q add allow all from any to any via bridge0 ipfw -q pipe 1000 config mask dst-ip 0x000000ff bw $limit ipfw -q add pipe 1000 ip from any to $throttle via xl1 ipfw -q pipe 1001 config mask src-ip 0x000000ff bw $limit ipfw -q add pipe 1001 ip from $throttle to any via xl1 ipfw -q add 60000 allow all from any to any If I change the limit to 0 (no limit) it starts passing traffic. Change it to any value, and it stops passing traffic. I did a tcpdump of the traffic and it gets to bridge0 but not any further. I tried moving the pipes to xl0 and bridge0 and the behaviour is the same. I also tried it on FreeBSD 6.3 with the same results. If I set up the machine as a router and use basically the same rules (no bridge0) it works exacly as expected. Fix: I wish I knew. How-To-Repeat: Set up a FreeBSD server as a bridge, verify that it works. I have 3 interfaces: a management interface and 2 for the bridge. Enable ipfw and dummynet, use the ipfw.rules listed above (adjusted for your network). Traffic will not pass over the bridge. Change the limit to 0 and traffic will pass. I have set up 3 different servers (one with FreeBSD 6.3) and the problem was present every time.
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