Subject: Re: Bridge mode
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org, gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Emre Yildirim <emre.yildirim@us.army.mil>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/14/2001 20:34:21
Gavan Fantom wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Chun-Ying Huang wrote:
>
>
>>Does NetBSD (1.5.2) support in-kernel bridge mode?
>>
>
> No, although I believe -current does.
I think Jason Thorpe was working on it the last time I checked. From
netbsd.org's news section:
Bridge support added to NetBSD-current (17 Aug) (top)
Jason Thorpe has committed support for building Ethernet bridges to
NetBSD-current. Bridges are configured with a combination of ifconfig(8)
and the new brconfig(8) utility. brconfig(8) can also be used to show a
bridge's status, like so:
swinger:thorpej 1$ brconfig -a
bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING>
Configuration:
priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
Interfaces:
fxp2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 4 priority 128
tlp0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 5 priority 128
Address cache (max cache: 100, timeout: 1200):
00:20:6f:04:13:1d tlp0 1169 flags=0<>
08:00:2b:2b:a9:0e tlp0 914 flags=0<>
00:03:47:20:1b:7d fxp2 191 flags=0<>
00:00:f8:23:43:9d tlp0 148 flags=0<>
swinger:thorpej 2$
If you use the bridge code, please send Jason a mail and report on how
well it works for you. If you have problems with it, please file a bug
report with send-pr(1).
This support is based off Jason Wright's bridge driver for OpenBSD, with
changes by Jason Thorpe.