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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:04:16 -0400
From:      "Raymond Owens" <owensr@comcast.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   if_bridge.c question
Message-ID:  <001701c69f7b$1e6b2550$0301a8c0@LAPPY2>

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I am running 6.1 release on some systems. I have a question about the =
bridging changes in if_bridge.c which were made in the stable branch. I =
am having a problem bonding two heavily loaded network interfaces for =
IDS purposes. There is  greatly increased  packets droppage when using  =
'ifconfig bridge0 monitor' to merge the two sniff interfaces under 6.1 =
release. (I am trying to get around using two concurrent Snort =
processeses)

Is it expected that the new bridge monitor function introduced in the =
stable branch will have much less packet droppage in identical =
situations when bonding busy interfaces? If so is there a way to get =
this without upgrading whole system to 6.1 stable? Will binary upgrade =
using 6.1 stable ISO provide this functionality also?

Also I had tried netgraph (and one2many) to bond the interfaces and it =
worked fine but at traffic peaks during day it would eventually stop =
seeing any packets at all on the virtual interface. Thanks



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