Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:23:31 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge Message-ID: <20040418152331.GG12383@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <40814C3B.10906@newsguy.com> References: <20040417035758.GA66806@kate.fud.org.nz> <40814C3B.10906@newsguy.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:24:43PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Andrew Thompson wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > >I have ported over the bridging code from NetBSD and am looking for > >feedback. > >My main question is, 'do people want this in the tree?' > > > > > >The benefits over the current bridge are: > > * ability to manage the bridge table > > * spanning tree support > > * the snazzy brconfig utility > > * clonable pseudo-interface (is that a benefit?) > > My main question is whether I can attach a vlan interface to it and have > everything work. That is not the case with the present bridge code, > though the Netgraph bridge code _might_ do it (I couldn't get help on > some criticial ng infrastructure to do it). > Offtopic, but ng_bridge(4) + ng_vlan(4) + ng_eiface(4) should just work. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAgp1zUkv4P6juNwoRAl9yAJ9wGK2Kd9lNfg30oJIfw4BZzsOGLgCcC99R BX3jB3WQcaDsZ40L94WDka0= =lFDx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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