From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 26 13:38:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38D237B904 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA44813; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:38:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200004262038.QAA44813@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "C. Stephen Gunn" Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph In-Reply-To: <20000426153100.A1623@waterspout.com> References: <200004260055.RAA55462@bubba.whistle.com> <200004261019.MAA43188@luxren2.boostworks.com> <20000426153100.A1623@waterspout.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > But bridging is a layer-2 operation. Shouldn't it happen with the > layer-2 processing, not in the driver for the physical device? To quote Dave Clark: # Layering can be a good way to design protocols, but is not necessarily # a good way to implement them, if you care about performance. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message