From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 25 9:40:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5CE37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA59531; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:38:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA06204; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:37:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200101251737.JAA06204@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: status of bridge code In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010125000221.00b07d60@mail.bsdchicks.com> "from Rogier R. Mulhuijzen at Jan 25, 2001 00:16:16 am" To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:37:32 -0800 (PST) Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: > But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is > spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more > I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it. Do you have references for how to do this? As I understand it, there are special Ethernet addresses that are "for bridges only -- do not forward" that are used to construct the spanning tree, etc. What is the "standard" algorithm used by bridges, etc.? > Also, a quick question for you netgraph guys. Why is it that ng_one2many > send a packet only out of one hook? I can see use for an algorithm that > sends packets from the 'one' hook to all the 'many' hooks (that are up) and > keep the normal behaviour for many to one. Hmm.. you could also get that affect using log2(n) ng_tee(4) nodes.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message