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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--kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:56:25PM +0200, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > Dear Sirs / Fellow Freebsd Freaks, >=20 > I've been using FreeBSD for a while now as a routing/firewalling platform= ,=20 > but recent developments in our network infrastructure confront me with so= me=20 > lack of features in the IPstack. > In a nutshell, i'm looking for support for (in order of importance to me)= :=20 > (r)STP, ECMP, and LACP. >=20 > For STP, i have found a patch that contained a port from netbsd code of= =20 > if_bridge ; but i'm way too insecure about running this on a production= =20 > system. > For ECMP, the only thing i found out was that there used to be a patchset= =20 > that did something like it, but went defunct after 4.8. > LACP: no idea at all, sorry :) >=20 > As these are features we'll be using some time soon now, i can say we _ne= ed_=20 > them. I have even seriously considered moving to NetBSD; the lack of NIC= =20 > polling support for the intel chipsets i'm using is holding me back at th= e=20 > 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= =20 > these features, and I might as well sponsor (part of?) its development. > Are there any persons interested in developing these features, or do they= =20 > already exist and am I just plain ignorant (forgive me if that is the cas= e). > Please note that i'm not interested in the netgraph approach, as that's= =20 > (imho) just a hack around it, and it's not functioning with for example= =20 > gnu/zebra et all. >=20 > I am looking for short- and long-term solutions, anything that's develope= d=20 > 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= =20 > any OSS software, I could be way off the scale with the figures i had in= =20 > mind. This would be about 200 to 400 euro per feature, the more important= =20 > ones like STP and ECMP are totally open to discussion. >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDE0rkXY6L6fI4GtQRApefAKDbdyHzzCmHZ7BnZGChhbQLxAVEwACdEW92 iocKsjpSP5AlO5d5xbj5+Mg= =Swf+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V--
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