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Re: FreeBSD and bridge
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- To: Adolfo Lucha <Adolfo dot Lucha at controlware dot de>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:31:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] FreeBSD and bridge
- References: <sf1d3970.067@controlware.de>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:17:02PM +0200, Adolfo Lucha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to have a bridge with the freeBSD stack. But I found
> some comments like "bridge code not yet available". I was thinking
> about to swap to the other IP stack. But I am not really sure what
> other unpredictable problems I would get. I am using freeBSD and it
> is working really fine.
> My goal is to have a bridge. What is you suggestion? Should I use
> the other IP stack? Does it have the same quality as the freeBSD
> stack? What are really the differences?
The FreeBSD and OpenBSD stack both originate from the same parent
code. The FreeBSD port is more up to date and so should have less
bugs. The FreeBSD port also has IPv6. But as you have found it, it
lacks bridge support.
The original FreeBSD sources do support bridging, but the feature was
removed when the port to eCos was performed. It should be straight
forward to put the bridge code back in again. That would be my
suggestion and use the OpenBSD cdl as a template as to how to add it
to the FreeBSD cdl files.
Andrew
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