From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 21:41:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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 6C4EC16A41F; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from bigwoop.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F1743D55; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by bigwoop.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148087A423; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42A0CE82.5040306@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:41:22 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050423 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Thompson References: <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz> <42A0C4F4.8010009@elischer.org> <20050603211400.GA26676@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050603211400.GA26676@heff.fud.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xxconfig for if_bridge X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:41:23 -0000 Andrew Thompson wrote: >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 > > and I still don't see why it is better to import Yet another bridge module rather than adding it to the 2 we already have. You can do things with ng_bridge that you can't do with if_bridge.. for example bridge together 3 remote sites connected by ipsec tunnels. > >Andrew > >