autobridge patch

[Marcin Jessa]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:16:05 +1300
Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
Hi Andrew. 
 
> I have a patch here that adds the ability to automatically add an
> interface to a bridge when its attached. This is aimed towards apps
> like qemu or vmware that open a tap interface and need it bridged
> with the network adapter, the user can set up a glob for interfaces
> to be automatically added (eg tap*). It may also be useful for Xen
> dom0 support.
> 
> This patch includes a big change to how interfaces are configured in
> userland. Before only physical Ethernet cards were handled by devd,
> now _ALL_ interfaces are (vlans, pflog, pfsync, tap, tun, etc..). This
> has the added bonus that the pseudo interfaces can be configured after
> boottime in rc.conf, ifconfig_xxx="".
> 
> Please test this patch, even if you dont use a bridge. Im not in a
> hurry to commit it.
 
Very cool, thanks.
Before trying to patch my sources..
Are the patches for CURRENT only or will they also work on 6.0 ?

Marcin