Can't ping any LAN hosts by host name
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@rcoleman-netgate said in Can't ping any LAN hosts by host name:
Bridging in BSD should be used in a very sparing, limited function. It's not a switch, it's a router.
@redbearak said in Can't ping any LAN hosts by host name:
If bridging is really something BSD can't do reliably,
If you really wanted bridging on your hardware you could run a Hypervistor such as Proxmox which does support bridging via underlying Linux. pfsense can then be run in a VM.
A Linux bridge emulates a switch (not Hub by default) but may still be inferior to a dedicated switch. The complexity of running a hypervisor just to create a switch is likely to be poor use of your time.
I run pfsense under Proxmox but pass through the NICs used by pfsense to optimise pfsense function and minimise the exposure surface however may others use VirtIO