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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:14:09 -0700
From:      Chris Sechiatano <chris@chris-s.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Redirection with a bridge ?
Message-ID:  <20040618231409.GA50767@chris-s.com>
In-Reply-To: <40D3752A.8000809@atopia.net>
References:  <40D3752A.8000809@atopia.net>

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Hi,

You will need some type of layer 3 device, router or firewall, to do what
you want.  A bridge works at layer 1 & 2 (physical and transport layers)
and basically just allows one type of network (cable or dsl) to talk to
antother (ethernet). 



On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a way to do IP redirection without using layer 3? (IPNAT or 
> routing)?  I have a bridge setup and want to redirect any port 80 
> traffic outgoing through the bridge to a specific server .... but it 
> seems I can only do this with ipfw's forward/fwd or ipnat's rdr commands 
> ... which are all layer 3 oriented and dont work with just a bridge...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you in advance for anyone's help,
> 
> Matt
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