From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 16 9: 9:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9109B37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C63143E42 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (localhost.he.iki.fi [127.0.0.1]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.5/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g8GFkF0x052863; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:46:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3D85FCC6.D53030DD@he.iki.fi> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:46:14 +0300 From: Petri Helenius X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en,fi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce M Simpson Cc: Paul Schenkeveld , FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Token Ring - Ethernet bridge References: <20020916113114.A36237@psconsult.nl> <20020916153950.GL28076@spc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > Is there any chance I can use FreeBSD as a bridge between > > token-ring and ethernet or will I be wasting my time trying > > to get the thing to work. > > The short answer is no, as oltr doesn't use the ether subsystem, and > ng_bridge uses hooks inside net/if_ethrsubr.c to do its thing. Also, > all the bridge support is in there, anyway. > Not *BSD related but since none of the OS's do this, best solution for a transition is probably to buy a secondhand Cisco or other gear like that for bridging purposes. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message