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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 If you're bridge(4) manpage lists interfaces, it's out of date.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.
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