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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: xxconfig for if_bridge
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> what does if_bridge give you that cannot be achieved with 
> ng_bridge+ng_eiface?
> Well, I guess it has some spanning tree algorythm in it, but it might be 
> as easy to put
> that in ng_bridge and a lot more flexible,
> 

We had this same discussion a year ago.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/thread.html#25886


Andrew