On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:57:58PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I have ported over the bridging code from NetBSD and am looking for feedback. > > My main question is, 'do people want this in the tree?' > > > > > > The benefits over the current bridge are: > > * ability to manage the bridge table > > * spanning tree support > > * the snazzy brconfig utility > > * clonable pseudo-interface (is that a benefit?) > > > What advantages does it offer compared to the ng_bridge(4) functionality? > I'd guess that missing features in netgraph would be the utility and the fact that NGM_BRIDGE_SET_TABLE_ENTRY hasn't been implemented. I don't know which of about 50 definitions of "Spanning tree support" this code implements so that may also be a new feature.. Of course it can't do some of the things that ng_bridge can do either.. (such as bridging over VPN) > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > ru_at_FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer >Received on Fri Apr 16 2004 - 22:17:38 UTC
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