From owner-freebsd-net Sun Nov 19 4:46:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.outblaze.com (proxy.outblaze.com [202.77.223.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F25337B4E5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 04:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 67998 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2000 12:46:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yusufg.portal2.com) (202.77.181.217) by proxy.outblaze.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2000 12:46:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 31351 invoked by uid 500); 19 Nov 2000 12:46:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:46:06 +0800 From: Yusuf Goolamabbas To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Does bridging work with all interfaces Message-ID: <20001119204606.A31317@outblaze.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 --- 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 --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message