.\" $OpenBSD: brconfig.8,v 1.51 2004/09/29 02:25:19 mcbride Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net) .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE .\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, .\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES .\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR .\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, .\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN .\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd February 26, 1999 .Dt BRCONFIG 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm brconfig .Nd manipulate bridge interfaces .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Fl a .Nm .Ar bridge-name .Op Ar parameters .Nm .Ar bridge-name Cm rule No { .Cm block | pass No } { .Cm in | out | in/out No } Cm on .Ar interface-name .Op Cm src Ar address .Op Cm dst Ar address .Op Cm tag Ar tagname .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility retrieves kernel state of bridge interfaces and allows user control of these bridges. Bridge devices create a logical link between two or more Ethernet interfaces or encapsulation interfaces (see .Xr gif 4 ) , which will selectively forward frames from each interface on the bridge to every other interface on the bridge. This can be used to isolate traffic between sets of machines on the same segment and to provide a transparent filter for .Xr ip 4 datagrams. .Pp In the first synopsis, the .Fl a flag will cause .Nm to list the status of all bridges in the system. In the second, its command line consists of the name of a bridge and a set of operations to be performed on that bridge. The commands are executed in the order they were specified. If no command is specified in the second synopsis, the .Nm will display status information about the bridge. With the third synopsis, rules for filtering Ethernet MAC addresses can be added to a bridge. .Pp The following parameters may be set with .Nm : .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm up Start the bridge forwarding packets. .It Cm down Stop the bridge from forwarding packets. .It Cm addr Display the addresses that have been learned by the bridge. .It Cm add Ar interface-name Add the interface named by .Ar interface-name as a member of the bridge. The interface is put into promiscuous mode so that it can receive every packet sent on the network. An interface can be a member of at most one bridge. .It Cm delete Ar interface-name Remove the interface named by .Ar interface-name from the bridge. Promiscuous mode is turned off for the interface when it is removed from the bridge. .It Cm del Ar interface-name Alias for .Cm delete . .It Cm addspan Ar interface-name Add the interface named by .Ar interface-name as a span port on the bridge. See the SPAN PORTS section for more details. .It Cm delspan Ar interface-name Delete the interface named by .Ar interface-name from the list of span ports of the bridge. .It Cm maxaddr Ar size Set the address cache size to .Ar size . The default is 100 entries. .It Cm timeout Ar time Set the timeout, in seconds, for addresses in the cache to .Ar time . The default is 240 seconds. If .Ar time is set to zero, then entries will not be expired. .It Cm static Ar interface-name address Add a static entry into the address cache pointing to .Ar interface-name . Static entries are never aged out of the cache or replaced, even if the address is seen on a different interface. .It Cm deladdr Ar address Delete an address from the cache. .It Cm flush Remove all dynamically learned addresses from the cache. .It Cm flushall Remove all addresses from the cache including static addresses. .It Cm blocknonip Ar interface Mark an interface so that no non-IPv4, IPv6, ARP, or Reverse ARP packets are accepted from it or forwarded to it from other bridge member interfaces. .It Cm -blocknonip Ar interface Allow non-IPv4, IPv6, ARP, or Reverse ARP packets through the .Ar interface . .It Cm discover Ar interface Mark an interface so that packets are sent out of the interface if the destination port of the packet is unknown. If the bridge has no address cache entry for the destination of a packet, meaning that there is no static entry and no dynamically learned entry for the destination, the bridge will forward the packet to all member interfaces that have this flag set. This is the default for interfaces added to the bridge. .It Cm -discover Ar interface Mark an interface so that packets are not sent out of the interface if the destination port of the packet is unknown. Turning this flag off means that the bridge will not send packets out of this interface unless the packet is a broadcast packet, multicast packet, or a packet with a destination address found on the interface's segment. This, in combination with static address cache entries, prevents potentially sensitive packets from being sent on segments that have no need to see the packet. .It Cm learn Ar interface Mark an interface so that the source address of packets received from .Ar interface are entered into the address cache. This is the default for interfaces added to the bridge. .It Cm -learn Ar interface Mark an interface so that the source address of packets received from .Ar interface are not entered into the address cache. .It Cm flushrule Ar interface Remove all Ethernet MAC filtering rules from .Ar interface . .It Cm link0 Setting this flag stops all non-IP multicast packets from being forwarded by the bridge. .It Cm -link0 Clear the .Cm link0 flag on the bridge interface. .It Cm link1 Setting this flags stops all IP multicast packets from being forwarded by the bridge. .It Cm -link1 Clear the .Cm link1 flag on the bridge interface. .It Cm link2 Setting this flag causes all packets to be passed on to .Xr ipsec 4 for processing, based on the policies established by the administrator using the .Xr ipsecadm 8 command. If appropriate security associations (SAs) exist, they will be used to encrypt or decrypt the packets. Otherwise, any key management daemons such as .Xr isakmpd 8 that are running on the bridge will be invoked to establish the necessary SAs. These daemons have to be configured as if they were running on the host whose traffic they are protecting (i.e., they need to have the appropriate authentication and authorization material, such as keys and certificates, to impersonate the protected host(s)). .It Cm -link2 Clear the .Cm link2 flag on the bridge interface. .It Cm rule Op Ar rulespec Add a filtering rule to an interface. Rules have a similar syntax to those in .Xr pf.conf 5 . Rules can be used to selectively block or pass frames based on Ethernet MAC addresses. They can also tag packets for .Xr pf 4 to filter on. Rules are processed in the order in which they were added to the interface, and the first rule matched takes the action (block or pass) and, if given, the tag of the rule. If no source or destination address is specified, the rule will match all frames (good for creating a catchall policy). .It Cm rulefile Ar filename Load a set of rules from the file .Ar filename . .It Cm rules Ar interface Display the active filtering rules in use on the given interface. .It Cm stp Ar interface Enable spanning tree protocol on .Ar interface . .It Cm -stp Ar interface Disable spanning tree protocol on .Ar interface . This is the default for interfaces added to the bridge. .It Cm maxage Ar time Set the time (in seconds) that a spanning tree protocol configuration is valid. Defaults to 20 seconds, minimum of 1, maximum of 255. .It Cm fwddelay Ar time Set the time (in seconds) before an interface begins forwarding packets. Defaults to 15 seconds, minimum of 1, maximum of 255. .It Cm hellotime Ar time Set the time (in seconds) between broadcasting spanning tree protocol configuration packets. Defaults to 2 seconds, minimum of 1, maximum of 255. .It Cm priority Ar num Set the spanning priority of this bridge to .Ar num . Defaults to 32768, minimum of 0, maximum of 65535. .It Cm ifpriority Ar interface Ar num Set the spanning tree priority of .Ar interface to .Ar num . Defaults to 128, minimum of 0, maximum of 255. .It Cm ifcost Ar interface Ar num Set the spanning tree path cost of .Ar interface to .Ar num . Defaults to 55, minimum of 1, maximum of 65535. .El .Sh EXAMPLES Create a bridge pseudo network device: .Pp .Dl # ifconfig bridge0 create .Pp Add the Ethernet interfaces rl0 and xl0 to the bridge bridge0, and have the bridge start forwarding packets: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 add rl0 add xl0 up .Pp Retrieve a list of interfaces that are members of bridge0, and the addresses learned by the bridge: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 .Pp Stop bridge0 from forwarding packets: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 down .Pp Remove the interface xl0 from the bridge bridge0: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 delete xl0 .Pp Flush all dynamically learned addresses from the address cache: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 flush .Pp Remove all addresses, including static addresses, from the address cache: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 flushall .Pp The following commands mark the xl0 interface so that it will not learn addresses and add a static entry for the host 8:0:20:1e:2f:2b on the xl0 segment. Finally, xl0 is marked so that it will not receive packets with destinations not found in the address cache of bridge0. This setup is the most secure, and means that bogus MAC addresses seen by the xl0 side of the bridge will not be propagated to the rest of the network. Also, no packets will be sent onto the xl0 segment by the bridge unless they are broadcast packets or are destined for 8:0:20:1e:2f:2b. .Bd -literal -offset indent # brconfig bridge0 -learn xl0 static xl0 8:0:20:1e:2f:2b # brconfig bridge0 -discover xl0 .Ed .Pp The following commands will set up a filter so that 0:1:2:3:4:5 can send frames through fxp0 only to 5:4:3:2:1:0, and 5:4:3:2:1:0 can return frames through fxp0 only to 0:1:2:3:4:5. All other traffic trying to go into or be sent from fxp0 will be blocked. .Bd -literal -offset indent # brconfig bridge0 rule pass in on fxp0 \e src 0:1:2:3:4:5 dst 5:4:3:2:1:0 # brconfig bridge0 rule pass out on fxp0 \e src 5:4:3:2:1:0 dst 0:1:2:3:4:5 # brconfig bridge0 rule block in on fxp0 # brconfig bridge0 rule block out on fxp0 .Ed .Pp The following commands will tag packets from and to 9:8:7:6:5:4 on fxp0 so that .Xr pf 4 can refer to them using the .Cm tagged directive: .Bd -literal -offset indent # brconfig bridge0 rule pass in on fxp0 src 9:8:7:6:5:4 tag boss # brconfig bridge0 rule pass out on fxp0 dst 9:8:7:6:5:4 tag boss .Ed .Pp An example .Xr pf.conf 5 rule using this tag is: .Pp .Dl pass tagged boss keep state queue q_med .Sh IPSEC BRIDGE The bridge can also be used to tunnel Ethernet frames over IPv4 or IPv6 by using the .Xr gif 4 interface. In addition to adding Ethernet interfaces, one or more .Xr gif 4 , interfaces are added as members of the bridge. Ethernet frames sent through the .Xr gif 4 interfaces are encapsulated inside .Xr ip 4 datagrams and sent across the network to another bridge, which decapsulates the datagram and then processes the resulting Ethernet frame as if it had originated on a normal Ethernet interface. This effectively allows a layer-2 network to be extended from one point to another, possibly through the Internet. This mechanism may be used in conjunction with IPsec by specifying the appropriate IPsec flows between the two bridges. To only protect the bridge traffic between the two bridges, the transport protocol 97 (etherip) selector may be used in .Xr ipsecadm 8 or .Xr isakmpd 8 . Otherwise, the Ethernet frames will be sent in the clear between the two bridges. .Pp For example, given two physically separate Ethernet networks, the bridge can be used as follows to make them appear as the same local area network. If bridge1 on network1 has the external IP address 1.2.3.4 on fxp0, bridge2 on network2 has the external IP address 4.3.2.1 on fxp0, and both bridges have fxp1 on their internal network (network1 and network2, respectively), the following configuration can be used to bridge network1 and network2. .Pp Add the encapsulation interface and internal Ethernet interface to the bridge interface: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 add gif0 add fxp1 .Pp Create and configure the gif0 interface: .Bd -literal -offset indent (on bridge 1) # ifconfig gif0 create (on bridge 1) # ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 4.3.2.1 (on bridge 2) # ifconfig gif0 create (on bridge 2) # ifconfig gif0 tunnel 4.3.2.1 1.2.3.4 .Ed .Pp Create Security Associations (SAs) between the external IP address of each bridge: .Bd -literal -offset indent # ipsecadm new esp -spi 4242 -dst 4.3.2.1 -src 1.2.3.4 -enc 3des \e -auth md5 -keyfile keyfile1 -authkeyfile authkeyfile1 # ipsecadm new esp -spi 4243 -dst 1.2.3.4 -src 4.3.2.1 -enc 3des \e -auth md5 -keyfile keyfile2 -authkeyfile authkeyfile2 .Ed .Pp Set up ingress flows so that traffic is allowed between the two bridges for the above associations: .Bd -literal -offset indent (on bridge1) # ipsecadm flow -dst 4.3.2.1 -out \e -transport etherip -require -addr 1.2.3.4/32 4.3.2.1/32 (on bridge2) # ipsecadm flow -dst 1.2.3.4 -out \e -transport etherip -require -addr 4.3.2.1/32 1.2.3.4/32 .Ed .Pp Bring up the internal interface (if not already up) and encapsulation interface: .Bd -literal -offset indent # ifconfig fxp1 up # ifconfig gif0 up .Ed .Pp Finally, bring the bridge interface up and allow it to start processing frames: .Pp .Dl # brconfig bridge0 up .Pp The internal interface, i.e., fxp1, on each bridge need not have an IP address; the bridge can function without it. .Pp Note: It is possible to put the above commands in the .Xr hostname.if 5 and .Xr bridgename.if 5 files, using the ! operator. .Sh SPANNING TREE The bridge has support for 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which can be used to detect and remove loops in a network topology. Using the .Cm stp or .Cm -stp commands to .Nm , STP can be enabled or disabled on each port. STP will not work on .Xr gif 4 members because they lack a hardware MAC address. .Sh SPAN PORTS The bridge can have interfaces added to it as span ports. Span ports transmit a copy of every frame received by the bridge. This is most useful for snooping a bridged network passively on another host connected to one of the span ports of the bridge. Span ports cannot be bridge members; instead, the .Cm addspan and .Cm delspan commands are used to add and delete span ports to and from a bridge. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr bridge 4 , .Xr gif 4 , .Xr ip 4 , .Xr ipsec 4 , .Xr pf 4 , .Xr bridgename.if 5 , .Xr pf.conf 5 , .Xr ifconfig 8 , .Xr ipsecadm 8 , .Xr isakmpd 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command first appeared in .Ox 2.5 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm command and the .Xr bridge 4 kernel interface were written by .An Jason L. Wright Aq jason@thought.net as part of an undergraduate independent study at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. .Sh BUGS There are some rather special network interface chipsets which will not work in a bridge configuration. Some chipsets have serious flaws when running in promiscuous mode, like the TI ThunderLAN (see .Xr tl 4 ) , which receives its own transmissions (this renders the address learning cache useless). Most other chipsets work fine though.