From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 5:37:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chat.ecp.fr (chat.ecp.fr [138.195.33.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A9914CF9 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 05:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dae@via.ecp.fr) Received: from via.ecp.fr (daette.via.ecp.fr [138.195.137.130]) by chat.ecp.fr (8.8.8/jtpda-5.3) with ESMTP id OAA13321 ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:38:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3708AF1A.8B18EB01@via.ecp.fr> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 14:39:54 +0200 From: Andres Organization: ZoY X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guy Helmer , Vallo Kallaste Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guy Helmer wrote: > /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c does not have bridging support in it. If nobody > else has sent you patches to enable bridging in if_ep.c, please let me > know. I have written bridging support in a related driver and it should > not be difficult to write the patch for if_ep.c. thanks for your quick answers. i'm using 3.1-R, and i'd seen from the "man 4 bridge": Not all interface support bridging -- at the moment it works for ``ed'', ``de'', ``ep'', ``fxp'', ``lnc'' interfaces. so i assumed that both my nics were able to do bridging. that was probably wrong, and nobody has sent me patches for if_ep.c yet. if it's not difficult for you to do one, a patch would be greatly appreciated. how can i tell from the source whether an interface is or not able to bridge ? i've tried to look at if_ed (assuming that ed could do bridging) , but couldn't spot the pieces of code that made it suited for bridging. regards, Andres. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message