RFC: ported NetBSD if_bridge

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:24:43PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 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?)
> 
> My main question is whether I can attach a vlan interface to it and have 
> everything work. That is not the case with the present bridge code, 
> though the Netgraph bridge code _might_ do it (I couldn't get help on 
> some criticial ng infrastructure to do it).
> 
Offtopic, but ng_bridge(4) + ng_vlan(4) + ng_eiface(4) should just work.


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