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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-08-03 02:26:18 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-08-03 02:26:18 +0000
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New release notes: if_bridge(4) private ports, wlandebug(8).
Approved by: re (implicitly)
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@@ -1029,6 +1029,17 @@
<para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RSTP, the Rapid
Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w). &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports a
+ <literal>private</literal> flag on bridge ports;
+ no private port on a bridge can communicate with any
+ other private port. This functionlity is useful in
+ scenarios such as number of customers VLANs bridged
+ with a server network; it might be desirable to prevent
+ the customer VLANs from communicating with each other
+ but allow all of them to access the server network. The
+ private flag on a bridge port can be set or cleared via
+ &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
<para>A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group
memberships (formerly 20) has been removed.</para>
@@ -2094,6 +2105,12 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU
systems.</para>
+ <para>The &man.wlandebug.8; utility has been added to the main
+ &os; source tree (it previously lived in a tools area). It
+ provides control over a number of types of debugging output
+ in the &man.wlan.4; module and related drivers, and can be
+ useful for debugging wireless issues.</para>
+
<para>The &man.wpa.passphrase.8; utility has been added. It
generates a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII
passphrase. &merged;</para>
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