RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 17 00:27:53 PDT 2004
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>
> 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)
>
Bridging over UDP is more real.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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