Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:34:30 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... Message-ID: <19980424103430.27432@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199804240607.IAA20557@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Apr 04, 1998 at 08:07:24AM %2B0200 References: <199804240607.IAA20557@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Apr 04, 1998 at 08:07:24AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am trying to see what could be the best way to implement bridging > within FreeBSD. The main app would be to connect 10/100 Mbit > interfaces in the most transparent way (I know doing packet filtering > on a 100 Mbit segment places a bit of load on the host and a > dedicated solution could be cheaper/more efficient). > > After thinking a bit, how about the following: > > + add a "linked" (or whatever name you like) command to "ifconfig" > so that you can say > > ifconfig de1 linked ed0 > > and then de1 inherits all features (ethernet and ip addresses, > aliases, netmasks...) of ed0. (Using the same ethernet addr makes > life easier when responding to ARP requests...) That would be nice. Right now, I do ``bridging'' with an ugly mixture of -link and -iface flags, combined with some mucking around with the arp table. I always thought that there should be an easier way to do it. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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