RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge

[Julian Elischer]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:57:58PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I have ported over the bridging code from NetBSD and am looking for feedback.
> > My main question is, 'do people want this in the tree?'
> > 
> > 
> > The benefits over the current bridge are:
> >  * ability to manage the bridge table
> >  * spanning tree support
> >  * the snazzy brconfig utility
> >  * clonable pseudo-interface (is that a benefit?)
> > 
> What advantages does it offer compared to the ng_bridge(4) functionality?
> 

I'd guess that missing features in netgraph would be
the utility and the fact that NGM_BRIDGE_SET_TABLE_ENTRY
hasn't been implemented. I don't know which of about 50 definitions of
"Spanning tree support" this code implements so that may also be a new 
feature..

Of course it can't do some of the things that ng_bridge can do either..
(such as bridging over  VPN)

> 

> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov
> ru at FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer
>