Applying desired patches

[Jens Trzaska]

* Dan Vande More <dvm at firstlink.com> [2003-10-09 19:28]:
> Silly question, but probably not the worst;)
> 
> I found Luigi Rizzo's recent patch under google groups and a few forums for transparent bridge forwarding support.
> Ref: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ipfw%40freebsd.org+apply+patch&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=48WJVb%24Nj7%40bbs.whnet.edu.cn&rnum=5
> Ref: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14795
> 
> For one reason or another, I'm having problems figuring out how to get it in my source code.
> I'm running 4.8 release, with src/ ready to build. However, I can't quite figure it out. 
> What do I need to do to apply the patches? 
> 
> My current ip_fw2.c is 1.6.2.11. 
> 
> Do I need to jump up to the latest cvs, then apply the patch using patch < bridge.patch?

Just write the patch into bridge.patch and 
'cd /usr/src/sys/netinet && patch -p0 < bridge.patch'. That should do
the trick.


jens

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