CFR: bridge locking

[Daniel C. Sobral]

>>>>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I think you mentioned in the past that NetBSD (OpenBSD?) has bridge code
>>>>>that implements the pseudo-device approach? 

>>Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>
>>>FreeBSD has both.
>>>If you use netgraph bridging then you are using a more
>>>"link level device" like approach.

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>>
>>Nope. Neither netgraph nor bridge(4) produce a pseudo-interface. 
>>Unfortunately. It would have solved the problem I was discussing with 
>>you (alas, I found a y2k thread, in which Archie and you were also 
>>present, about that very same problem).
>>
>>Netgraph's ng_iface is not enough, because it's much more limitted.

Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> netgraph's eiface node may do better..

ENODOCS. :-)

I can barely configure this stuff with the existing docs. Without, I 
won't even know what hooks there are for it! :-)

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