CFR: bridge locking

[Doug Ambrisko]

Daniel C. Sobral writes:
| Err... mmmm... I don't know what a vmnet is, and "apropos" told me no 
| tales. :-)

man tap

| Alas, I tried netgraph to. It suffers from about the same problem. 
| Packets on the bridge do not go to the vlan, and packets from the vlan 
| do not get sent to the bridged interfaces (just the attached one).
| 
| I tried ng_iface, but vlan won't attach to that.
| 
| Someone mentioned ng_eiface, which, from the looks of it, has potential. 
| Unfortunately, there's no documentation on it, so I don't have any idea 
| on how to use it.

Tell, me about.  I couldn't figure out how to use it so I just tie
a vmnet device to it (but after 4.6 you need the tap patch) ... BTW
a hint was in the patch file since the patch was to if_tap.c.

  a21p% uname -a
  FreeBSD a21p 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Thu Aug  7 22:08:31 PDT 2003     root at a21p:/data/home/ambrisko/stable/usr/src/sys/compile/THINK  i386
  a21p% man ng_eiface
  No manual entry for ng_eiface
  a21p% 

Doug A.