From owner-freebsd-net Sun Nov 19 18:24:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from spider.pilosoft.com (p55-222.acedsl.com [160.79.55.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D8637B4CF for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:24:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (alexmail@localhost) by spider.pilosoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA31063; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:25:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:25:44 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Pilosov To: Yusuf Goolamabbas Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of bridging and dummynet in FreeBSD 4.x In-Reply-To: <20001120020929.2071.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Take a look at Vitaly Belekhov's work at www.riss-telecom.ru/~vitaly/, as far as traffic shaping, its really state-of-art. It has its own filtering implementation. As far as bridging, I don't know if his work (specifically ng_eiface) is bridging-enabled. On 20 Nov 2000, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > I received email from Luigi that whilst Archie's commits have enabled > bridging on all interfaces, it has broken the combination of bridging > and dummynet. I have never used dummynet before so don't know what > broken means but I have rolled out 3 filtering bridges (bridging + > ipfw) in the last two months on 4.1-stable and they have been rock > solid > > I saw that a netgraph bridge node type was available but according to > the man page, there is no support for IPFW filtering and consequently > dummynet support. Don't know if there are plans to get this support in > and subsequently use netgraph to build filtering bridges and traffic > shaping bridges > > Does anybody have any idea about this regression of dummynet from 3.x > to 4.x and are there any patches available for this ? > > Regards, Yusuf > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message