[ECOS] Re: question about bridging code.

[daniel dot neri at sigicom dot com (Daniel Néri)]

"bill guckel" <bguckel@cisco.com> writes:

> I'm hoping someone can answer a question about the function
> bridge_input() in net/tcpip/current/src/sys/net/if_bridge.c.

[code snipped]

> My question concerns the the passing of 'ether_dhost' to
> 'bridge_rtupdate()'.  Why not 'ether_shost' ?  This would seem to me
> (not a bridging expert) be a more important address to learn.

It seems you are right.

> Note that I may be using old code since it's been a while since I
> took new source.

As far as I can see, this bug still exists in recent source. Though it
was fixed in the original code two years ago:

   http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/if_bridge.c.diff?r1=1.48&r2=1.49&f=h


Regards,

-- 
Daniel Néri, Sigicom AB, Sweden


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