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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-net@psconsult.nl>,
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Subject: Re: Token Ring - Ethernet bridge
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 but the oltr could be MADE to use it if you ar a bit of a hacker..
(or at least to get the equivalent code)

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> >   Is there any chance I can use FreeBSD as a bridge between
> >   token-ring and ethernet or will I be wasting my time trying
> >   to get the thing to work.
> 
> The short answer is no, as oltr doesn't use the ether subsystem, and
> ng_bridge uses hooks inside net/if_ethrsubr.c to do its thing. Also,
> all the bridge support is in there, anyway.
> 
> BMS
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