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Date:      Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFR: bridge locking
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308201241110.60598-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030820145619.45901C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
> 
> > I think you mentioned in the past that NetBSD (OpenBSD?) has bridge code
> > that implements the pseudo-device approach? 

FreeBSD has both.
If you use netgraph bridging then you are using a more
"link level device" like approach.


> 
> I had an older set of patches (4.x?) that implemented a bridgeX interface
> that saw all of the packets bridged by the bridge.  However, it was just a
> pseudo-interface for the purposes of BPF -- it didn't carry a link local
> address, etc.  I never tested for interop with IPv6.  You can find a very
> old version of this at www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/bridge.patch.  It
> required some cleanup of the interactions between the bridge code and IPFW
> code that have probably since happened in the main tree as well, so the
> chances of this applying or working are effectively 0. :-)
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories
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