interface. Once the limit is reached packets with unknown source addresses are
dropped until an existing host cache entry expires or is removed. Useful to
use with the STICKY cache option.
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communicate with another private port.
All unicast/broadcast/multicast layer2 traffic is blocked so it works much the
same way as using firewall rules but scales better and is generally easier as
firewall packages usually do not allow ARP blocking.
An example usage would be having a number of customers on separate vlans
bridged with a server network. All the vlans are marked private, they can all
communicate with the server network unhindered, but can not exchange any
traffic whatsoever with each other.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
bridged, previously legitimate traffic was not passed as the bridge could not
tell that it was on a different Ethernet segment.
All non-tagged traffic is treated as vlan1 as per IEEE 802.1Q-2003
- use flags rather than sperate ioctls for edge, p2p
- implement p2p and autop2p flags
- define large pathcost constant as ULL
- show bridgeid and rootid in ifconfig
Obtained from: Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
address learned by the bridge is made permanent, the address will not age out
and most importantly will not migrate to another interface.
This can be used to stop mac address poisoning or clients roaming in much the
same way as static entries without the hassle of preloading the table.
RSTP provides faster spanning tree convergence, the protocol will exchange
information with neighboring switches to quickly transition to forwarding
without creating loops. The code will default to RSTP mode but will downgrade
any port connected to a legacy STP network so is fully backward compatible.
Reviewed by: syrinx
Tested by: syrinx
spanning tree support.
Based on Jason Wright's bridge driver from OpenBSD, and modified by Jason R.
Thorpe in NetBSD.
Reviewed by: mlaier, bms, green
Silence from: -net
Approved by: mlaier (mentor)
Obtained from: NetBSD