From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 12:45:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC2616A4C0; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43F043F85; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([12.233.125.100]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003082019422301500bnaj1e>; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:42:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA74511; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Sam Leffler cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Lars Eggert cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: bridge locking X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:45:50 -0000 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" >