From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Sep 19 10: 6:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7857337B616 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8JH6CR15681; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma015674; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:53 -0700 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA03955; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200009191705.KAA03955@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: vmnet, bridging and netgraph In-Reply-To: "from Nick Sayer at Sep 19, 2000 09:51:41 am" To: Nick Sayer Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Sayer writes: > > The ng_bridge(4) node treats all links as the same, whether they are > > pointing "up" or "down", so it wouldn't know how to do that. I guess > > it could contain logic to probe each peer to see if it's an ng_ether > > node, and if so, remember it. That's probably worth looking in to.. > > The change to ng_ether committed last night fixes this. Using ng_bridge > now works at least as well as the traditional bridge stuff. I still think Ah, great.. thanks Julian. > > You'd need ng_ether.ko and ng_bridge.ko, both of which depend on > > netgraph.ko... ? > > Doing that, I end up with _two_ copies of ng_bridge installed, but if > I don't, then I get no copies. But if I try other combinations it just > flat doesn't work. Perhaps it's because I am kldloading netgraph.ko > instead of using 'options NETGRAPH' in my kernel? This sounds like some kind of module dependency problem not specific to netgraph.. Maybe this happens because ng_bridge.ko depends on both ng_ether.ko and netgraph.ko, while ng_ether.ko also depends on netgraph.ko.. ? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message