From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 04:03:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B784816A41C; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 04:03:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from cheer.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DFB43D49; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 04:03:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from lyrics.mahoroba.org (ume@lyrics.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:280:88ff:fe03:4841]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by cheer.mahoroba.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id j5343YXx049868 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:03:34 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:03:31 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Andrew Thompson In-Reply-To: <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz> References: <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.15.1 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b5 (cheer.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:03:34 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on cheer.mahoroba.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xxconfig for if_bridge X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:03:43 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:01:40 +1200 >>>>> Andrew Thompson said: thompsa> The if_bridge code that will soon be committed can be configured using thompsa> either brconfig or ifconfig. thompsa> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/ thompsa> Only one tool will be committed and I would like to get opinions on thompsa> which one ppl prefer thompsa> brconfig thompsa> - new util to /sbin thompsa> + same as NetBSD/OpenBSD thompsa> - would require new rc.d script and rc.conf keywords thompsa> ifconfig (patched for if_bridge) thompsa> + one tool to rule them all thompsa> + seamless with rc.conf, ifconfig_bridge0="..." thompsa> - diverges from the other BSDs As for gif(4), once gifconfig(8) was introduced, then the feature was merged into ifconfig(8) and gifconfig(8) was removed. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/