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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:46:06 +0800
From:      Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Does bridging work with all interfaces
Message-ID:  <20001119204606.A31317@outblaze.com>

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According to bridge(4) , it only works for ``ed'', ``de'', ``ep'', ``fe'', ``fxp'', ``lnc'', ``mx'', ``tx'', and ``xl'' interfaces.

However, according to cvs logs [rev 1.11 and rev 1.9.2.1 of if_dc.c] 
on May 14 and May 24th Archie Cobb wrote the following message

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Move code to handle BPF and bridging for incoming Ethernet packets out
of the individual drivers and into the common routine ether_input().
Also, remove the (incomplete) hack for matching ethernet headers
in the ip_fw code.

The good news: net result of 1016 lines removed, and this should make
bridging now work with *all* Ethernet drivers.

The bad news: it's nearly impossible to test every driver, especially
for bridging, and I was unable to get much testing help on the mailing
lists.

Reviewed by:    freebsd-net
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Has anybody got bridging to work on the dc(4) interface. I am looking to
build a traffic shapping bridge machine with a fxp interface on one side
and a 4 port D-Link DFE-570TX card on the other side (to traffic shape
upto 4 machines individually for 1 Mb/s outbound)

Any suggestions on how to go about this would be appreciated ?

Regards, Yusuf
-- 
Yusuf Goolamabbas
yusufg@outblaze.com


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