bridge mode

Question

bridge mode

ish-org opened this issue a year ago · comments

I want use wifibox with bridge mode.
Is there any way to bridge between eth0 and wlan0?
Because I want to make lagg with re0 and wifibox0.

PÁLI Gábor János · Answer 1 · Tue Mar 07 2023 15:24:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @ish-org, as far as I have learned, it is not possible to bridge between eth0 and wlan0 (inside the VM, I believe that is what you meant). In #18 we had some discussion on this topic, although the focus has recently moved to firewall configuration due to lack of true bridging.

ish-org · Answer 2 · Tue Mar 07 2023 17:37:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you for reply.
It is popular to make a WiFi router using a Raspberry Pi, and in that case bridge-utils is used to achieve bridge mode, so I wondered if it would be possible to do the same on a VM. There seems to be something else called 'Using Netgraph for FreeBSD's bhyve Networking'(https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-netgraph-for-freebsds-bhyve-networking/).

PÁLI Gábor János · Answer 3 · Wed Mar 08 2023 16:26:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for calling my attention to the Netgraph-enabled bhyve. I use FreeBSD 12 as the primary developer system, maybe that is why I have not notice this feature yet. But I could explore this approach and see how this works. In case of success, it might be worth to port it back to FreeBSD 12 (via bhyve+) if possible.