Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: bridge locking Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308201241110.60598-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030820145619.45901C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Lars Eggert wrote: > > > I think you mentioned in the past that NetBSD (OpenBSD?) has bridge code > > that implements the pseudo-device approach? FreeBSD has both. If you use netgraph bridging then you are using a more "link level device" like approach. > > I had an older set of patches (4.x?) that implemented a bridgeX interface > that saw all of the packets bridged by the bridge. However, it was just a > pseudo-interface for the purposes of BPF -- it didn't carry a link local > address, etc. I never tested for interop with IPv6. You can find a very > old version of this at www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/bridge.patch. It > required some cleanup of the interactions between the bridge code and IPFW > code that have probably since happened in the main tree as well, so the > chances of this applying or working are effectively 0. :-) > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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