Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:40:47 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering with netgraph? Message-ID: <20010726114047.A16234@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107261321510.10515-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700 References: <20010726125321.D79454@numachi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107261321510.10515-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > - Would a netgraph-based bridge be limited to the set of interfaces
> > documented in bridge(4)?
>=20
> NO, and these days even the other bridging is supported by=20
> teh base ethernet code rather than a particular driver (I think)
If you're bridge(4) manpage lists interfaces, it's out of date. Here's
what it says on current and stable:
Interfaces that cannot be put into promiscuous mode or that don't supp=
ort
sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are not compa=
ti-
ble with bridging.
Presumably netgraph bridging has the same requirements.
-- Brooks
--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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