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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:25:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
To:        Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: State of bridging and dummynet in FreeBSD 4.x
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.10.10011192117140.519-100000@spider.pilosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001120020929.2071.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>

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Take a look at Vitaly Belekhov's work at www.riss-telecom.ru/~vitaly/, as
far as traffic shaping, its really state-of-art. It has its own filtering
implementation. As far as bridging, I don't know if his work (specifically
ng_eiface) is bridging-enabled.



On 20 Nov 2000, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:

> I received email from Luigi that whilst Archie's commits have enabled
> bridging on all interfaces, it has broken the combination of bridging
> and dummynet. I have never used dummynet before so don't know what
> broken means but I have rolled out 3 filtering bridges (bridging +
> ipfw) in the last two months on 4.1-stable and they have been rock
> solid
> 
> I saw that a netgraph bridge node type was available but according to
> the man page, there is no support for IPFW filtering and consequently
> dummynet support. Don't know if there are plans to get this support in
> and subsequently use netgraph to build filtering bridges and traffic
> shaping bridges
> 
> Does anybody have any idea about this regression of dummynet from 3.x
> to 4.x and are there any patches available for this ?
> 
> Regards, Yusuf
> 
> 




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