From owner-freebsd-net Tue Aug 22 13:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D98337B423; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26658; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA68458; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008222039.NAA68458@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: bridging and freebsd crash In-Reply-To: from Robert Watson at "Aug 22, 2000 03:18:15 pm" To: Robert Watson Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Tomas Hodan , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Watson writes: > I'm beginning to feel that we might want to revamp the current bridging > framework, combining the best aspects of the current work with the some of > the structural framework from the OpenBSD implementation. I haven't had I'll restate my suggestion: rewrite the bridging code as a netgraph node. The Ethernet stuff has already been modified to make it plug & play ready, using the ng_ether(4) "upper" and "lower" hooks. Makes things nice & self-contained that way. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message