From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 24 10: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hera.drwilco.net (10dyn101.dh.casema.net [212.64.31.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02DB37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:59:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.net (ceres.drwilco.net [10.1.1.19]) by hera.drwilco.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0OILmd18095 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:21:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.net) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20010124185058.00ac5100@mail.drwilco.net> X-Sender: drwilco@mail.drwilco.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:01:27 +0100 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: status of bridge code Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is anyone working on the bridge code? I've got a couple of things I'd like to fix in it, but I wouldn't want to be doing anything someone else already did. My wishlist: 1) Better interaction with various drivers (like if_tap). For some reason I need to do a wack (undocumented) sysctl to make the bridge code refresh the iface list 2) Spontanious kablooies. After being in operation for a while it refuses to send anything through and doesn't spew any messages.... 3) Improve documentation. 3) iface clustering/routing 4) spanning tree implementation There's talk of a userland daemon for the last item. Is there such a thing, and if so, where. If there's no such daemon (not even halfway done), what would be the best way for a daemon like that to interact with the kernel source? A device or sysctl's? Is there any bridging part of BSDi maybe that could be merged into our networking code. Being used a lot in key networking positions FreeBSD should really have good bridging. I've heard a few people who tried it complain about the 2nd item on my list. Being an allround good networking OS this is unacceptable IMHO. DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message