From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 17:40:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136C316A41F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:40:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14CE43D48 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AA8CD8F0032; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:40:28 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8AHfGIe027595; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8AHf6o0027592; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: Josh Paetzel References: <200509101120.56857.josh@tcbug.org> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:41:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200509101120.56857.josh@tcbug.org> (Josh Paetzel's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:20:56 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging section of the handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:40:33 -0000 Josh Paetzel writes: > man 4 bridge does not list supported cards. Would it be a worthy > project for me to contact all of the network card driver's authors > and get a list of cards to add to the man page? Can't say. But that's going to be one long list. I hope you've looked at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET (which, BTW, should be organized by NIC and by chipsets, instead of by drivers, but it's probably not worth the trouble changing since readers can use "find"). But if you do dig up the information, it might help in the maintenance of the list to start a tradition of having each NIC driver manpage include a labeled "Bridging" section (or at least a paragraph) where it says to what extent it supports bridging. Or just do that and forget the list. Most people have NICs in hand and could then find the info easily enough in the driver manpage. The list only helps those looking for a bridging-capable NIC, but I suspect that that's reletively few and since most (?) NICs support bridging, it shouldn't be hard for them to find one by checking a few guesses.