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15.0R/relnotes: Add breaking bridge changes
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Authored by ziaee on Jul 3 2025, 7:01 PM.

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Discussed with: Michael Dexter, Jan Bramkamp, jwd

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ziaee requested review of this revision.Jul 3 2025, 7:01 PM
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kp added inline comments.
website/content/en/releases/15.0R/relnotes.adoc
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"The IP requires IP addresses" doesn't seem quite right.

"It requires IP addresses to be assigned to the bridge interface itself, not to any of the member interfaces." perhaps?

I was hoping for it to read "The Internet Protocol requires IP addresses..." because I want to put it on the internet protocol and not on FreeBSD. That is, FreeBSD allowed the old behavior, but the rest of the network never worked in all situations.

ziaee retitled this revision from 15.0 relnotes: Document breaking bridge changes to 15.0R/relnotes: Add breaking bridge changes.Fri, Jul 4, 7:24 PM

Rebased, changed first IP to Internet Protocol to try to make it clearer.
If it still doesn't read well I'm happy to change it again.

ivy added inline comments.
website/content/en/releases/15.0R/relnotes.adoc
569

i don't think this is right: IP itself doesn't require IP addresses to be assigned to a bridge rather than the member interfaces, this is a limitation of FreeBSD's implementation.

it's true almost every other implementation of bridge has the same limitation (by design) but it's not inherent in IP.