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Author SHA1 Message Date
Luigi Rizzo
e88516c29b Lots of improvement to the bridging code.
In order of importance:

 + each cluster now uses private data structures (filtering and
   local address tables) so you can treat them as fully independent
   switches. This part of the work was supported by:
        Cisco Systems, Inc. - NSITE lab, RTP, NC.

 + cleaned up the handling of configuration, so the system will behave
   much better when real or pseudo devices are dynamically attached
   or detached. It should also not panic anymore on systems with large
   number of devices, closing a few existings PRs on the topic.

 + while at it, add support for VLAN. This means that a FreeBSD box
   can now work as a real VLAN switch, with trunk interfaces etc.
   As an example:
        ifconfig vlan0 vlan 3 vlandev dc0
        ifconfig vlan1 vlan 4 vlandev dc0
        net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="vlan0:3,dc1:3,vlan1:4,dc1:4"
   uses dc0 as a trunk interface, and dc1 and dc3 as ports on vlans 3 and 4
   You get the idea...
   NOTA BENE: by default bridge_cfg is initialised to "" so even if
   you enable bridging, no packets will be bridged until you set the
   list of interfaces on which you want this to happen.

 + large restructuring of the code, moving private vars and types from
   bridge.h to bridge.c.

 + added a lot of comments to the code to explain how to use it.
2002-02-15 05:11:11 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
7b109fa404 MFS: sync the ipfw/dummynet/bridge code with the one recently merged
into stable (mostly , but not only, formatting and comments changes).
2001-11-04 22:56:25 +00:00
Matt Jacob
e58c2b8381 Fix this so it compiles cleanly for alpha. Tried to do some minimal testing.
Reviewed by:	freebsd-net
2001-10-19 18:29:57 +00:00
Paul Saab
db69a05dce Make it so dummynet and bridge can be loaded as modules.
Submitted by:	billf
2001-10-05 05:45:27 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
507b4b5432 MFS: bridge/ipfw/dummynet fixes (bridge.c will be committed separately) 2001-02-02 00:18:00 +00:00
Nick Sayer
82902fa3d8 Make the bridge_refresh operation automatic when ethernet interfaces
are attached or detached.
2000-07-29 02:00:12 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
2e2de7f23f Move code to handle BPF and bridging for incoming Ethernet packets out
of the individual drivers and into the common routine ether_input().
Also, remove the (incomplete) hack for matching ethernet headers
in the ip_fw code.

The good news: net result of 1016 lines removed, and this should make
bridging now work with *all* Ethernet drivers.

The bad news: it's nearly impossible to test every driver, especially
for bridging, and I was unable to get much testing help on the mailing
lists.

Reviewed by:	freebsd-net
2000-05-14 02:18:43 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
25a3a898ca Update bridging code to the one already in -stable (this was
forgotten some time ago...).

Approved-by: jordan
2000-02-08 14:53:55 +00:00
Peter Wemm
664a31e496 Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot).  This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago.  More commits to come.
1999-12-29 04:46:21 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
fb5fbe465a Bridging support. Wait for LINT to be updated before trying it. 1998-12-14 17:58:05 +00:00
Luigi Rizzo
cb1e41ca65 Bring in files for bridging support. 1998-09-12 22:07:47 +00:00