Re: Bridges

From: Andrew Thompson (thompsa_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 09/25/05

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    Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:22:12 +1200
To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>

    On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:22:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
    > On Sat, 2005-Sep-24 15:25:06 +0200, Max Laier wrote:
    > >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
    >
    > Since I've recently needed it, neither bridge.c nor if_bridge.c allow
    > you to bridge VLAN trunks (you can bridge individual VLANs but that
    > becomes unwieldly when you have dozens of VLANs). I have code to do
    > this in bridge.c.
     
    I'd like to see what you have done here, can I look at the patch.

    >
    > >Please test the new alternative if you are using the old one still.
    >
    > Has anyone looked at how difficult it would be to get if_bridge.c to
    > work in 5.x?
     
    http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/if_bridge-5stable.20050907.diff

    Ive posted it for testing before but didnt get a response, care to try
    it out?

    Andrew
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