Re: xxconfig for if_bridge

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 06/03/05

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To: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>

    Andrew Thompson wrote:

    >On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
    >
    >
    >>what does if_bridge give you that cannot be achieved with
    >>ng_bridge+ng_eiface?
    >>Well, I guess it has some spanning tree algorythm in it, but it might be
    >>as easy to put
    >>that in ng_bridge and a lot more flexible,
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >We had this same discussion a year ago.
    >
    >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/thread.html#25886
    >
    >

    and I still don't see why it is better to import Yet another bridge
    module rather
    than adding it to the 2 we already have.

    You can do things with ng_bridge that you can't do with if_bridge..

    for example bridge together 3 remote sites connected by ipsec tunnels.

    >
    >Andrew
    >
    >
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