From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 20 10:37:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interware.hu (mail.interware.hu [195.70.32.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F2F37C02C for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from marakesh-20.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.50.148] helo=jules.elischer.org) by mail.interware.hu with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 134SBy-0003ou-00; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:52:07 +0200 Message-ID: <394FAB91.794BDF32@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:36:17 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tarik Alj Cc: archie@whistle.com, gregoire@cholla.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca, "Vitaly V. Belekhov" , net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridge + VLAN + netgraph References: <200006152006.QAA06392@cholla.INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tarik Alj wrote: > > Hi, > > we are interested in develloping a netgraph > bridge node following the > 802.1Q standard; that is a bridge with VLAN support > and eventually GARP applications support. I have read > the recent thread about bridging and netgraph, > and have also read the article on netgraph in daemonnews. > However it is not very clear if work is being done as to > devellop a bridge node or if it is scheduled > for later on. I would also be interested if you > had any advice or suggestions on > the matter. > > Sincerely, Archie will also comment but I may be able to help you too. There is VLAN support in FreeBSD but it is independent to the Netgraph framework as it was developed independently by other people. I have not looked at it closely. It would be noce if we could consolidate these things under the single framework. It would of course be possible to implement VLAN support using netgraph. There is also a 'backwards ethernet' netgraph node written by Vitaly V. Belekhov (CC'd)and available at www.riss-telecom.ru/~vitaly/ This node may be of some use to you.. The standard 'ethenet' node was recently re-written and will be checked in soon. check: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/misc/NGETHER.patch.2 the changed semantics may be of use to you also. These supercede changes at http://home.earthlink.net/~evmax/ng.tar.gz made by Maksim Yevmenkin In -current there is work to make bridging more suitable for inclusion into netgraph but it is not complete yet. Archie will have more info.. > > Tarik. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tarik Alj > > INRS-Telecommunications > Place Bonaventure > 900 De La Gauchetierre Ouest > Niveau C, Case Postale 644 > Montreal, Qc, H5A 1C6 > Canada > > 514 875-1266 #2036 (email preferred) -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 )_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message