Bug 82595

Summary: 25.5.3 Configuring a bridge section of the handbook needs updating
Product: Documentation Reporter: Josh Paetzel <josh> <josh>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Gavin Atkinson <gavin>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> 2005-06-24 02:20:09 UTC 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html

25.5.3.1 Network Interface Card Selection

A bridge requires at least two network cards to function. Unfortunately,
not all network interface cards as of FreeBSD 4.0 support bridging. Read
bridge(4) for details on the cards that are supported.

Should probably be updated to 5.4 but mainly man 4 bridge does not list
supported ethernet cards.

Fix: 

I don't have enough information to attempt a fix
How-To-Repeat: Read the handbook section and man pages
Comment 1 minimarmot 2008-07-02 06:13:59 UTC 
The section in question no longer mentions FreeBSD 4.0, nor NIC selection.
Also, it seems that bridge(4) has supported all ethernet devices since
2000 (see, for example, if_xl.c rev 1.74 commit log).

I think this PR should be closed.

-Ben Kaduk
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-07-02 06:52:24 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Does the submitter agree that this one is OBE?
Comment 3 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-04-23 15:34:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

FGeedback timeout (1 year).  I'm pretty sure this one is OBE.
Comment 4 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-04-23 15:34:08 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->gavin

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