What's wrong with netgraph NG_FWD_NEW_DATA?

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:01:00PM +0300, Chris Dionissopoulos wrote:
C> Trying to split inbound traffic based on layer2 characteristics,
C> i have create a new netgraph module(ng_l2split) using
C> ng_vlan(4) as reference. The design and implementation is
C> pretty simple as ng_vlan :
C> 
C> xl0:upper
C>    |
C> +---------+
C> | ng_l2split|-----ng0 (ng_eiface on ngeth0)
C> +---------+   ( --- ng1,2,....)
C>   |
C> xl0:lower
C> 
C> ng_l2plit has 2 basic hooks as descriped in ng_vlan(4) man page:
C> - downstream hook (attached to physical's "lower" )
C> - nomatch hook (attached to physical's "upper" )
C> 
C> and for every ng_eiface node you attach you must provide a
C> mac address for filtering  (later this will be automated).

Uhmm, wouldn't it be simplier to use ng_bridge?

                   ,-- ngeth0 (with MAC address X)
                  /
xl0:lower -- bridge
                  \
		   `-- ngeth1 (with MAC address Y)

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