From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 23 22: 7:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1CF37B9AB for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06597; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:07:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3903D68F.9A217B9B@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:07:27 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph References: <200004230411.VAA17652@bubba.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message