Re: Bridges

From: Andre Oppermann (andre_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 09/24/05

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    Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:47:30 +0200
To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>

    Max Laier wrote:
    >
    > All,
    >
    > for some time now, we have three bridge implementations in the tree:
    > - net/bridge.c - the "old" bridge
    > - net/if_bridge.c - the "new" bridge from Net/OpenBSD
    > - netgraph/ng_bridge.c - the netgraph version [1]
    >
    > The new code has several advantages over the old version:
    > - Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1D)
    > - better firewall support (IPv6, stateful filtering, ...)
    > - easy ifconfig(8) configuration
    >
    > while keeping all the functionality that was present in the old code:
    > - dummynet support
    > - IPFW L2 support [2]
    >
    > There have been some benchmarks that suggest that there isn't a performance
    > issue either, but more numbers are always appreciated. If it turns out that
    > there is any remaining problem with if_bridge we need to fix it. If you are
    > running an old bridge on 6.0-BETA try moving to the new code and let us know.
    >
    > This means the old code is obsolete. In order to keep code duplication down
    > and not hinder further development (Andre is working on an overhaul of [2]
    > and would have to do it twice, for example) I would like to retire the old
    > bridge code soon. This should happen in HEAD only and thus the old bridge
    > will stay for all of FreeBSD 6 unless more aggressive depreciation is
    > requested.
    >
    > Please test the new alternative if you are using the old one still. Let us
    > know if there are any issues remaining.
    >
    > Objections against soon retirement of bridge.c in HEAD?

    No objection. if_bridge has surpassed net/bridge.c in features. There
    is no compelling reason to carry two bridge implementations forward. It
    only creates a unnecessary maintenance burden. 

    -- 
Andre
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