Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Larry S. Lile" <lile@stdio.com> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <Reinier.Bezuidenhout@KryptoKom.DE> Cc: freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Olicom driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981026093505.942A-100000@heathers.stdio.com> In-Reply-To: <199810261215.NAA08788@borg.kryptokom.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Hi ... > > I have read through the archive this morning and it seems that > the olicom driver is entering it's final stages. I have to finish the transmit code, then the fun begins with source routing. Of course a lot of general cleanup in the generic code is neccesary also. > I have a question in general ... > > How difficult would it be to implement bridging in the driver ? > > I would like to try this once we have a working driver. The Olicom cards support promisc. mode all the way down to mac frames so this should be possible to do. Passive bridging should be trivial, take all packets (not destined for us) and copy them to another ring without any processing. This could be easily implemented in the driver. Passive bridging (learning) would be a little more difficult, it would have to create lists of mac's for each attached ring and only copy packets destined to a different ring based on the mac address. This would be a little more difficult to implement in the driver. You are welcome to give it a shot, I should have the driver transmitting before the end of the week. I am still unsure about how source routing will be implemented so that may be a little while longer. Larry Lile lile@stdio.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.981026093505.942A-100000>