RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 16 22:55:58 PDT 2004


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?


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