[Ns-bugs] [Bug 274] point to point device cannot ignore from and to addresses

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------- Comment #4 from gjcarneiro at gmail.com  2008-08-25 11:19 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> tom and I discussed this so, here is a summary:
> 
> 1) There are certain kinds of devices which will be incompatible with others
> when put under the same bridge. For example, devices which use incompatible
> address types won't be able to be bridged together.

At the moment the bridging code attempts to convert addresses to Mac48Address. 
Any netdevice that doesn't use Mac48Address will trigger assertion errors in
runtime.

The bridging code is mean to work only on 802 netdevices.  In real world I am
not aware of bridging using other kinds of addresses, so in my opinion this
isn't a real problem.

> 
> 2) the _model_ of the p2p device is incompatible with bridging (it is not the
> implementation which is at fault). This means that bridging somewhat needs to
> be optional at least in this case.

Indeed, this seems rather obvious to me.  The only way for p2p to be usable for
bridging would be via Ethernet encapsulation (add EthernetHeader before
transmitting, remove it when receiving).

> 
> 3) we need to figure out how we can detect bridging incompatibilities.

This is just about detecting a user program error.  I would say this "would be
nice", but not something we _have_ to do IMHO.


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