From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 26 11:55: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D56137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA10648; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brooks Davis Cc: Brian Reichert , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering with netgraph? In-Reply-To: <20010726114047.A16234@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 If you're bridge(4) manpage lists interfaces, it's out of date.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