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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:38:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
Message-ID:  <200004262038.QAA44813@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000426153100.A1623@waterspout.com>
References:  <200004260055.RAA55462@bubba.whistle.com> <200004261019.MAA43188@luxren2.boostworks.com> <20000426153100.A1623@waterspout.com>

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<<On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:31:00 -0500, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> said:

> But bridging is a layer-2 operation.  Shouldn't it happen with the
> layer-2 processing, not in the driver for the physical device?

To quote Dave Clark:

# Layering can be a good way to design protocols, but is not necessarily
# a good way to implement them, if you care about performance.

-GAWollman

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