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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:55:49 +0300
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:57:58PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
>=20
> I have ported over the bridging code from NetBSD and am looking for feedb=
ack.
> My main question is, 'do people want this in the tree?'
>=20
>=20
> 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?)
>=20
What advantages does it offer compared to the ng_bridge(4) functionality?


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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