CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

[Mark Saad]

Kristof 
  Up until a month ago I ran a set of FreeBSD based ap in my house and even long ago at work . They were Pc engines apu ‘s or Alix’s with one em/igb nic and one ath nic in a bridge .  They worked well for a long time however the need for more robust wifi setup caused me to swap them  out with cots aps from tp-link .  The major issues were the lack of WiFi features and standards that work oob on Linux based aps . 

So I always wanted to experiment with ng_bridge vs if_bridge for the same task . But I never got around to it . Do you have any insight into using one vs the other . Imho if_bridge is easier to setup and get working . 


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Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org

> On Apr 15, 2020, at 1:37 PM, Kristof Provost <kp at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 15 Apr 2020, at 19:16, Mark Saad wrote:
>> All
>>   Should this improve wifi to wired bridges in some way ? Has this been tested ?
>> 
> What sort of setup do you have to bridge wired and wireless? Is the FreeBSD box also a wifi AP?
> 
> I’ve not done any tests involving wifi.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kristof