Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:24:43 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge Message-ID: <40814C3B.10906@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040417035758.GA66806@kate.fud.org.nz> References: <20040417035758.GA66806@kate.fud.org.nz>
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Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have ported over the bridging code from NetBSD and am looking for feedback.
> My main question is, 'do people want this in the tree?'
>
>
> The benefits over the current bridge are:
> * ability to manage the bridge table
> * spanning tree support
> * the snazzy brconfig utility
> * clonable pseudo-interface (is that a benefit?)
My main question is whether I can attach a vlan interface to it and have
everything work. That is not the case with the present bridge code,
though the Netgraph bridge code _might_ do it (I couldn't get help on
some criticial ng infrastructure to do it).
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