Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: vmnet, bridging and netgraph Message-ID: <200009191705.KAA03955@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009190943320.1921-100000@medusa.kfu.com> "from Nick Sayer at Sep 19, 2000 09:51:41 am"
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Nick Sayer writes: > > The ng_bridge(4) node treats all links as the same, whether they are > > pointing "up" or "down", so it wouldn't know how to do that. I guess > > it could contain logic to probe each peer to see if it's an ng_ether > > node, and if so, remember it. That's probably worth looking in to.. > > The change to ng_ether committed last night fixes this. Using ng_bridge > now works at least as well as the traditional bridge stuff. I still think Ah, great.. thanks Julian. > > You'd need ng_ether.ko and ng_bridge.ko, both of which depend on > > netgraph.ko... ? > > Doing that, I end up with _two_ copies of ng_bridge installed, but if > I don't, then I get no copies. But if I try other combinations it just > flat doesn't work. Perhaps it's because I am kldloading netgraph.ko > instead of using 'options NETGRAPH' in my kernel? This sounds like some kind of module dependency problem not specific to netgraph.. Maybe this happens because ng_bridge.ko depends on both ng_ether.ko and netgraph.ko, while ng_ether.ko also depends on netgraph.ko.. ? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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