Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@boostworks.com> Cc: archie@whistle.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000429103407.1309B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200004290051.CAA55633@luxren2.boostworks.com>
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > On 28 Apr, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > Per my comment a little bit ago, please find patches that clean up the > > bridge/ipfw code a little at: > > > > http://www.watson.org/~robert/bridge.patch > > > > Because I'm travelling, I haven't had a chance to build or use the code in > >.... > > Nice try Robert, but the topic of the discussion haven't reached the > bridging code level. Next step. On the contrary -- one of the fundamental problems we've been discussing here is that the layering needs sorting out -- physical layer, link layer, and above, are all mixed up. We're pushing the bridging and packet sniffing interaction further up the stack, and as such some interfaces are changing. As the current bridge code is transparent at the link layer, it makes sense to me that it would be cleaned at the same time. In fact, in order that we properly clean the physical/link layer code, we need to better understand and simplify the bridge code so that we can do the job right. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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