Hi all, I finally got around to running the last test on my changes to bridge(4) and it all works well. The only real problem I had to think about was that the point in the network stack for tapping off bridged packets was above the point in the network stack where packets are injected. This means that when multicasting packets up the network stack you have to do something to prevent a packet storm. My initial implementation used a link local mbuf flag, but bridging is inherently not link local, so I discarded that method. I settled on moving the point at which the bridge taps into the network stack down the stack so that it is now below the point at which packets are injected into the stack. In particular, I removed the bridge code from ether_input() and made the bridge update the struct ifnet if_input field when an interface is added to or removed from a bridge. The code for updating the if_input field is purposefully simple and conservative. There are some interface drivers that call ether_input() directly instead of indirecting through struct ifnet if_input and that seems to be a requirement that was missed when porting the drivers from FreeBSD. I’ll PR those drivers once I finish this email and send this patch to kern/48104. Overall this patch removes 107 of old code and adds 85 lines of new code. I know it’s a crude code metric, but I do like increased functionality with less code. Cheers, Lloyd
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