From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 13:06:39 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 45AB816A4BF; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E746543FCB; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7KK6Vj02372; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:06:31 -0300 Message-ID: <3F43D4C6.2040705@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:06:30 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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 20:06:39 -0000 >>>>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! :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net ( /\__________/\ ) \(^ @___..___@ ^)/ /\ (\/\/\/\/) /\ / \(/\/\/\/\)/ \ -( """""""""" ) \ _____ / ( /( )\ ) _) (_V) (V_) (_ (V)(V)(V) (V)(V)(V)