Re: CFR: bridge locking

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 08/20/03

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    Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote:

    >
    > 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?

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

    >
    > I had an older set of patches (4.x?) that implemented a bridgeX interface
    > that saw all of the packets bridged by the bridge. However, it was just a
    > pseudo-interface for the purposes of BPF -- it didn't carry a link local
    > address, etc. I never tested for interop with IPv6. You can find a very
    > old version of this at www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/bridge.patch. It
    > required some cleanup of the interactions between the bridge code and IPFW
    > code that have probably since happened in the main tree as well, so the
    > chances of this applying or working are effectively 0. :-)
    >
    > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
    > robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
    >
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