Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:34:49 -0400 From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com> To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: New version of TAP driver for FreeBSD -current Message-ID: <E598F159668DD311B9C700902799EAF447344C@njb140po01.ems.att.com>
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Jordan, > I've looked at this driver and think it looks useful, though I'm a > little concerned about the handling of bridge support. We don't > really encourage users to edit module Makefiles just to enable a given > feature in the compiled module [...] i think that whole ``#ifdef BRIDGE'' section can be removed from the code. ``ether_input'' seems to be take care of it. it also feeds frame to ``bpf'', so it also can be removed. thanks to Nick Sayer for the hint :) i just got e-mail that makes a good point about Ethernet bridging <quote> it seems freebsd 4.x bridgin code is somewhat broken.. (it initializes the tables of devices it can bridge at boot time).. thus tap0 isnt available yet.. so basically bridging doesnt work ;( </quote> ooops :) will check on it :) seems to me we need some interface to add/remove interfaces to/from bridge. Thanks, emax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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