From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 11 17:50:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tp.databus.com (p72-186.acedsl.com [66.114.72.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEE337B400 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from barney@localhost) by tp.databus.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g1C1oDn39260; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:50:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from barney) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:50:13 -0500 From: Barney Wolff To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: upcoming change to net.link.ether.bridge_cfg handling Message-ID: <20020211205013.A39212@tp.databus.com> References: <20020211170846.B32847@iguana.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020211170846.B32847@iguana.icir.org>; from rizzo@icir.org on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:08:47PM -0800 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 How about the ability to list i'faces that should NOT bridge, and let all others bridge? Pattened after the traditional allow/deny lists of other things. People could then use whichever polarity made life easiest for their config. Barney Wolff On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:08:47PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > That also means that at boot time, the list of interfaces will be > empty. This can be easily fixed by doing > > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="`ifconfig -l`" > > in the rc* files, and I will make sure that this is the default in > rc* files. > > Constructive complaints are welcome, but 100% backward compatibility > is just not feasible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message