Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:09:20 -1000 From: spoggle <dcornejo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: distributed bridging Message-ID: <6b8e8f4f0510281209l57703c36j817ae577ba1e3a77@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings, I'm trying to create a configuration that would bridge interfaces on different hosts. Each host would have at least two interfaces, one would be the inter-host connection, the remaining would be the bridged interfaces, so that a packet appearing on host a's bridged interface would also appear on host b, c, etc. bridged interfaces and vice versa. My equipment to try this is on order, so it's still somewhat of a brain exercise. I would like to use if_bridge (for it's STP) and I was thinking of bridging the local interfaces and then using netgraph (eiface?) connected to some other plumbing like l2tp to connect the remote bridges together. Does this sound feasible? Anyone have any other suggestions on how to pull this off? I've also considered hacking if_bridge to allow the configuration of remote bridges as pseudo ports, but not sure I'll have time. spoggle
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