Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:50:29 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Bart Van Kerckhove <bart@it-ss.be> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature requests / inquiries. Message-ID: <20050829175029.GC18276@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <001301c5acb2$36d8c820$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> References: <001301c5acb2$36d8c820$020b000a@bartwrkstxp>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:56:25PM +0200, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > Dear Sirs / Fellow Freebsd Freaks, > > I've been using FreeBSD for a while now as a routing/firewalling platform, > but recent developments in our network infrastructure confront me with some > lack of features in the IPstack. > In a nutshell, i'm looking for support for (in order of importance to me) : > (r)STP, ECMP, and LACP. > > For STP, i have found a patch that contained a port from netbsd code of > if_bridge ; but i'm way too insecure about running this on a production > system. > For ECMP, the only thing i found out was that there used to be a patchset > that did something like it, but went defunct after 4.8. > LACP: no idea at all, sorry :) > > As these are features we'll be using some time soon now, i can say we _need_ > them. I have even seriously considered moving to NetBSD; the lack of NIC > polling support for the intel chipsets i'm using is holding me back at the > moment. > I do not want to move over to linux, for various reasons. > So I figured perhaps some of the freebsd community is also interested in > these features, and I might as well sponsor (part of?) its development. > Are there any persons interested in developing these features, or do they > already exist and am I just plain ignorant (forgive me if that is the case). > Please note that i'm not interested in the netgraph approach, as that's > (imho) just a hack around it, and it's not functioning with for example > gnu/zebra et all. > > I am looking for short- and long-term solutions, anything that's developed > trough sponsoring i'd be happy to contribute to the main tree. > As this would be the first time we actually ask for a specific feature in > any OSS software, I could be way off the scale with the figures i had in > mind. This would be about 200 to 400 euro per feature, the more important > ones like STP and ECMP are totally open to discussion. > > Any takers? Any enlightenment? Thanks for helping out in advance ;) if_bridge has been imported into FreeBSD 6.0 and I believe will be merged to 5.x before 5.5. I can't speak for ECMP. LACP is supported by ng_fec. The fact that you don't like it is a seperate issue. FWIW, ng_fec only uses netgraph for configuration. It's not really a netgraph node. I'd personally like to see OpenBSD's if_trunk imported and LACP added, but I certainly don't have time. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDE0rkXY6L6fI4GtQRApefAKDbdyHzzCmHZ7BnZGChhbQLxAVEwACdEW92 iocKsjpSP5AlO5d5xbj5+Mg= =Swf+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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