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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org
Subject:   Re: vmnet, bridging and netgraph
Message-ID:  <200009191705.KAA03955@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009190943320.1921-100000@medusa.kfu.com> "from Nick Sayer at Sep 19, 2000 09:51:41 am"

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Nick Sayer writes:
> > The ng_bridge(4) node treats all links as the same, whether they are
> > pointing "up" or "down", so it wouldn't know how to do that. I guess
> > it could contain logic to probe each peer to see if it's an ng_ether
> > node, and if so, remember it. That's probably worth looking in to..
> 
> The change to ng_ether committed last night fixes this. Using ng_bridge
> now works at least as well as the traditional bridge stuff. I still think

Ah, great.. thanks Julian.

> > You'd need ng_ether.ko and ng_bridge.ko, both of which depend on
> > netgraph.ko... ?
> 
> Doing that, I end up with _two_ copies of ng_bridge installed, but if
> I don't, then I get no copies. But if I try other combinations it just
> flat doesn't work. Perhaps it's because I am kldloading netgraph.ko
> instead of using 'options NETGRAPH' in my kernel?

This sounds like some kind of module dependency problem not specific
to netgraph..

Maybe this happens because ng_bridge.ko depends on both ng_ether.ko
and netgraph.ko, while ng_ether.ko also depends on netgraph.ko.. ?

-Archie

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