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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Tomas Hodan <tomas@hodan.sk>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bridging and freebsd crash
Message-ID:  <200008222039.NAA68458@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000822151452.5556F-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "Aug 22, 2000 03:18:15 pm"

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Robert Watson writes:
> I'm beginning to feel that we might want to revamp the current bridging
> framework, combining the best aspects of the current work with the some of
> the structural framework from the OpenBSD implementation.  I haven't had

I'll restate my suggestion: rewrite the bridging code as a netgraph node.

The Ethernet stuff has already been modified to make it plug & play
ready, using the ng_ether(4) "upper" and "lower" hooks.  Makes things
nice & self-contained that way.

-Archie

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