Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:39:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... Message-ID: <199804250339.FAA22619@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199804250254.TAA26359@usr06.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 98 02:54:06 am
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> > so that you can say > > > > ifconfig de1 linked ed0 > > > > and then de1 inherits all features (ethernet and ip addresses, > > aliases, netmasks...) of ed0. (Using the same ethernet addr makes > > life easier when responding to ARP requests...) > > There are no interface flag bits left. what's wrong with adding fields to the if descriptor ? (it's only a pointer to the parent interface), plus it needs to scan the interface lists when an if is added/deleted/reconfigured. As a matter of fact i have already been running with a modified descriptor and i don't see any adverse side effect. At most some program that uses kmem needs to be recompiled. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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