[ECOS] FreeBSD still lacking bridge support?

[Gary Thomas]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:26:10AM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Is the FreeBSD stack still missing bridge support?  (He asked
>> hesitently, expecting to be told "yes".) I see the
>> CYGPKG_NET_BRIDGE option in the openbsd CDL, but not in the
>> FreeBSD CDL.  
>>
>> While we started with the OpenBSD stack back in 1.3.1 days, we
>> switched over to the FreeBSD stack several years ago (just
>> before 2.0, IIRC).
>>
>> Now we are considering an addition to the product line that
>> would have two Ethernet interfaces and need to act as an
>> Ethernet bridge.
>>
>> I don't relish the thought of using the OpenBSD stack for one
>> model and the FreeBSD stack for the rest.  (The presence of the
>> second Ethernet interface and the "bridging" feature would be
>> the only difference).
>>
>> Neither do I want to switch back to the OpenBSD stack for the
>> entire product line since FreeBSD is more actively supported
>> and showed noticable performance improvements.
>>
>> How difficult would it be to add bridging support to the
>> FreeBSD stack?  Is the bridging code present in the FreeBSD
>> source tree but not enabled, or is there actually no bridging
>> code in the FreeBSD source tree?
> 
> I added the bridging support to the OpenBSD stack. I think it took me
> about a day. In fact the hardest part was the "userspace" tool to
> setup the bridge and show the tables. This had lots of memory leaks
> since it was written to run in a process environment with a cleanup on
> exit.
> 
> I would not expect a huge effort to make it work, but i've not looked
> at the code...

It would be great if this was done - we could totally deprecate the
older OpenBSD stack :-)

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