Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering with netgraph? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107261351220.10515-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010726114047.A16234@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Ahhhh yes,.... you are correct. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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)? > > > > NO, and these days even the other bridging is supported by > > 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 If you're bridge(4) manpage lists interfaces, it's out of date.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 support > sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are not compati- > ble with bridging. > > Presumably netgraph bridging has the same requirements. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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