Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:06:30 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: bridge locking Message-ID: <3F43D4C6.2040705@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308201254111.60598-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308201254111.60598-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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>>>>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?
>>Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>
>>>FreeBSD has both.
>>>If you use netgraph bridging then you are using a more
>>>"link level device" like approach.
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>>
>>Nope. Neither netgraph nor bridge(4) produce a pseudo-interface.
>>Unfortunately. It would have solved the problem I was discussing with
>>you (alas, I found a y2k thread, in which Archie and you were also
>>present, about that very same problem).
>>
>>Netgraph's ng_iface is not enough, because it's much more limitted.
Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> netgraph's eiface node may do better..
ENODOCS. :-)
I can barely configure this stuff with the existing docs. Without, I
won't even know what hooks there are for it! :-)
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