Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:37:32 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of bridge code Message-ID: <200101251737.JAA06204@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010125000221.00b07d60@mail.bsdchicks.com> "from Rogier R. Mulhuijzen at Jan 25, 2001 00:16:16 am"
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Rogier R. Mulhuijzen writes: > But from my list of wishes I'd say the first 3 are gone. All that's left is > spanning tree. I'm probably going to need this pretty soon, so once more > I'm asking if anyone is working on it. If not I'll start on it. Do you have references for how to do this? As I understand it, there are special Ethernet addresses that are "for bridges only -- do not forward" that are used to construct the spanning tree, etc. What is the "standard" algorithm used by bridges, etc.? > Also, a quick question for you netgraph guys. Why is it that ng_one2many > send a packet only out of one hook? I can see use for an algorithm that > sends packets from the 'one' hook to all the 'many' hooks (that are up) and > keep the normal behaviour for many to one. Hmm.. you could also get that affect using log2(n) ng_tee(4) nodes.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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