if_bridge & pf

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:01:01PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 2 firewalls, and every of them have 2 bridged interfaces + STP , 
> running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE
> Unfortunately one of them is totally dead (hw problems) and I have to 
> make new one, but I plan to use
> FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE.
> 
> My question is are there any know compatibility issues between 6.1 and 
> 6.2? I know that
> a lot of changes are committed to if_bridge and pf/pfsync, that's why 
> I'm little unsure :)

For if_bridge there were over a dozen commits, half were new feaures and
the other half bugfixes. I do not know of any compatibility issues. The
main one for you to test would be the addition of RSTP which was a large
overhaul of the existing code. The default protocol is still STP and
should be no different for you.


Andrew