RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge

[Julian Elischer]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, 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?)

Do we need THREE bridging systems?
If you need features you culd probably add them pretty easily to one or
the other of the existing bridging modules..