Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:41:22 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xxconfig for if_bridge Message-ID: <42A0CE82.5040306@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050603211400.GA26676@heff.fud.org.nz> References: <20050603020140.GA22870@heff.fud.org.nz> <42A0C4F4.8010009@elischer.org> <20050603211400.GA26676@heff.fud.org.nz>
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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 > >
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