From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 28 21:42:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13499 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA13431; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id FAA27667; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 05:06:13 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804290306.FAA27667@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Bridging... To: cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 05:06:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chris Shenton" at Apr 28, 98 03:47:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm very interested in this as well, but I'm on 2.2.6. i generally run -stable so that is not a problem. > Is there some simple bridging SW? I didn't find anything in the there is a 10mb-ony bridge code for a dedicated box on my page, or a freebsd version of drawbridge on their site (forget the url). > ports. If there is, what kind of HW do I need to support bridging at > this speed? I don't need packet filtering and other firewall functions nothing special (well, some cards have nice capabilities such as sending an interrupt after the first part of the pkt arrived, so you can start forwarding checks (and possibly the actual forwarding) sooner, but we are not talking about top performance, just something that works. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message