Limitations of -curent Bridinging...

[Julian Elischer]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> WHat exactly is the issue (besides no loop detection support)
> in 5.x?
> 
> I was going to use 5.x as a bridge between my main router
> and the rest of my network, mainly for trafshow/iftop type stuff.
> 
> Of course, I want the ability to ipfw on it as well, if I need to, 
> and possibly traffic shape with dummynet.  Possibly snort as well, although
> I'm not sure.
> 
> If I can't do that, then will Netgraph work, and give me something that
> I can actually filter with?

No,
the netgraph ipfw node has never been committed.

give a node to do what you want it would work,
but while it was written it was never documented well enough to add and 
it never happenned..

> 
> Or do I need to switch BSD's and go with Open for this project, because
> their bridging code has some function that I'm not comprehending (besides STP).
> 
> 
> Is there anything wrong with this plan?
> 
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