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New release notes: if_bridge(4) private ports, wlandebug(8).

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Bruce A. Mah 2007-08-03 02:26:18 +00:00
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<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>