From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 16 8:42:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A3237B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3E7943E4A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 11454 invoked by uid 1031); 16 Sep 2002 15:39:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:39:50 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Paul Schenkeveld Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Token Ring - Ethernet bridge Message-ID: <20020916153950.GL28076@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Paul Schenkeveld , FreeBSD Net References: <20020916113114.A36237@psconsult.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020916113114.A36237@psconsult.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > Is there any chance I can use FreeBSD as a bridge between > token-ring and ethernet or will I be wasting my time trying > to get the thing to work. The short answer is no, as oltr doesn't use the ether subsystem, and ng_bridge uses hooks inside net/if_ethrsubr.c to do its thing. Also, all the bridge support is in there, anyway. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message