Re: CFR: bridge locking

From: Daniel C. Sobral (dcs_at_tcoip.com.br)
Date: 08/20/03

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    Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:06:30 -0300
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    >>>>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>>I think you mentioned in the past that NetBSD (OpenBSD?) has bridge code
    >>>>>that implements the pseudo-device approach?

    >>Julian Elischer wrote:
    >>>
    >>>FreeBSD has both.
    >>>If you use netgraph bridging then you are using a more
    >>>"link level device" like approach.

    > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
    >>
    >>Nope. Neither netgraph nor bridge(4) produce a pseudo-interface.
    >>Unfortunately. It would have solved the problem I was discussing with
    >>you (alas, I found a y2k thread, in which Archie and you were also
    >>present, about that very same problem).
    >>
    >>Netgraph's ng_iface is not enough, because it's much more limitted.

    Julian Elischer wrote:
    >
    > netgraph's eiface node may do better..

    ENODOCS. :-)

    I can barely configure this stuff with the existing docs. Without, I
    won't even know what hooks there are for it! :-) 

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