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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 19:09:47 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de>
Cc:        ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bridge(4) and non-IP packets
Message-ID:  <20020528190947.A14555@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CF43436.6080008@porsche.de>; from perisa@porsche.de on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:51:50AM %2B0200
References:  <3CF43436.6080008@porsche.de>

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we are in code freeze now so it is not a good time to work on -stable.
Re. current, i recently introduced the ability to match packets
basing on the MAC header, so the patch in the PR is not necessary there.

I might MFC the code after 4.6 is out.

	cheers
	luigi

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:51:50AM +0200, Marc Perisa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Joost Bekkers filled in 2000 a PR ( 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/23771 ) that adds 
> compile options to the kernel for bridge(4). It helps to not brigde 
> no-IP packets.
> 
> - Is the idea useful? ( adding a kernel compile option)
> - Is the way the patch is coded ok?
> - Should the patch be updated against -CURRENT or -STABLE code?
> 
> If the answer is yes three times I will take a deeper look (and perhaps 
> add BRIDGE_ALLOW_IPX, BRIDGE_ALLOW_<protocol>) and update the patch 
> against the actual source.
> 
> Another idea is to create a set of sysctl to handle different protocols 
> like net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw_<protocol>. Then a section for checking 
> the protocol of packets should be added.
> 
> Whom I may ask for guidance?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> 
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