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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: -current  link layer spaghetti diagram
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:46:03PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> A first attempt can be seen at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/layer2-current.pdf
> 
> this is not a call graph, but a diagram of where packets can be passed.
> 
> comments from vlan, pfil, CARP. if_bridge  developers are welcome.
> those new-fangled bits worry me :-)
> 

if_bridge looks fine. It does also hook into dummynet with a
handoff/callback, but I dont know if you want that much detail.


Andrew