question about bridge and dummynet

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 21:26:22 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Ji <lijimlee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to ask if it is impossible to compile "bridge" into
> kernel (DFBSD2),
> I tried "options BRIDGE" and "device if_bridge", both failed with
> error "unknown option/device".
>
> I had to revise "/etc/rc.conf" (cloned_interfaces="bridge0" ...) to
> bring bridge to work, and set "net.link.ether.ipfw=1,"
> but I found dummynet does not work with bridging traffic. Also, I
> could not find variables like "net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw" .
> Can anyone help me with that?
>
> Besides, I found another variable "net.inet.ip.dummynet.cpu", what's
> its purpose?

I think all of your questions are well answered :).  I also suggest
you to try pf+fairq+bridge

Best Regards,
sephe

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