Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:01:27 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: status of bridge code Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20010124185058.00ac5100@mail.drwilco.net>
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Is anyone working on the bridge code? I've got a couple of things I'd like to fix in it, but I wouldn't want to be doing anything someone else already did. My wishlist: 1) Better interaction with various drivers (like if_tap). For some reason I need to do a wack (undocumented) sysctl to make the bridge code refresh the iface list 2) Spontanious kablooies. After being in operation for a while it refuses to send anything through and doesn't spew any messages.... 3) Improve documentation. 3) iface clustering/routing 4) spanning tree implementation There's talk of a userland daemon for the last item. Is there such a thing, and if so, where. If there's no such daemon (not even halfway done), what would be the best way for a daemon like that to interact with the kernel source? A device or sysctl's? Is there any bridging part of BSDi maybe that could be merged into our networking code. Being used a lot in key networking positions FreeBSD should really have good bridging. I've heard a few people who tried it complain about the 2nd item on my list. Being an allround good networking OS this is unacceptable IMHO. DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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