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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:07:27 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
Message-ID:  <3903D68F.9A217B9B@softweyr.com>
References:  <200004230411.VAA17652@bubba.whistle.com>

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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> So, I've got a proposal :-) These are not all my ideas, but
> here they are collected in one place..
> 
> The current situation with Ethernet drivers, Bridging, BPF, and
> Netgraph is that it's all a bit klugey and gross.  As evidence of
> this, every single Ethernet driver (I've counted 45) must contain
> the same duplicated code to handle both BPF and bridging..
> 
> What do people think?

Yes.  What we have now is fugly, and this sounds like a great clean-up.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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