xxconfig for if_bridge

[Julian Elischer]

Andrew Thompson wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>what does if_bridge give you that cannot be achieved with 
>>ng_bridge+ng_eiface?
>>Well, I guess it has some spanning tree algorythm in it, but it might be 
>>as easy to put
>>that in ng_bridge and a lot more flexible,
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>We had this same discussion a year ago.
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>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/thread.html#25886
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and I still don't see why it is better to import Yet another bridge 
module rather
than adding it to the 2 we already have.

You can do things with ng_bridge that you can't do with if_bridge..


for example bridge together 3 remote sites connected by ipsec tunnels.

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>Andrew
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