Re: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

2005-11-17 Thread Eric F Crist
On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:43:18AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: FreeBSD 6 came at the perfect time for me. I've just switched my primary desktop from Win2k to FreeBSD, and I put the Windows boot disk in an old machine that was heading for t

Re: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

2005-11-17 Thread Ashley Moran
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 13:43, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm a wee bit confused here, but I do understand what you are trying to > do. > > First, did you compile a new kernel with the following option?: > > options BRIDGE > > Second, try giving both PC's a static IP address, and disconnect the >

Re: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

2005-11-16 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:52, Erik Osterholm wrote: > This should not be necessary with if_bridge.  A kernel module must be > loaded before if_bridge will work, but seems to load automatically > when creating the bridge interface.  Alternatively, if_bridge can be > compiled into the kernel w

Re: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:43:18AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > FreeBSD 6 came at the perfect time for me. I've just > > switched my primary desktop from Win2k to FreeBSD, and I put > > the Windows boot disk in an old machine that was heading for the skip. > > > > I wanted to access the

RE: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
> FreeBSD 6 came at the perfect time for me. I've just > switched my primary desktop from Win2k to FreeBSD, and I put > the Windows boot disk in an old machine that was heading for the skip. > > I wanted to access the W2k machine (fred) over VNC without > flooding our switch, so I thought let