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From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>
To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: New version of TAP driver for FreeBSD -current 
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:34:49 -0400
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Jordan,

> I've looked at this driver and think it looks useful, though I'm a
> little concerned about the handling of bridge support.   We don't
> really encourage users to edit module Makefiles just to enable a given
> feature in the compiled module 

[...]

i think that whole ``#ifdef BRIDGE'' section can be removed from the code.
``ether_input'' seems to be take care of it. it also feeds frame to ``bpf'',
so it also can be removed. thanks to Nick Sayer for the hint :)

i just got e-mail that makes a good point about Ethernet bridging

<quote>
it seems freebsd 4.x bridgin code is somewhat broken.. (it initializes the 
tables of devices it can bridge at boot time).. thus tap0 isnt available
yet..

so basically bridging doesnt work ;(
</quote>

ooops :) will check on it :) seems to me we need some interface to
add/remove interfaces to/from bridge.

Thanks,
emax


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