Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:44:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph ng_bridge and ipfilter Message-ID: <200103280444.GAA89371@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <3AC0CCC3.F7DD8133@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Mar 27, 2001 09:24:19 am"
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> > in this case, this person seemed to _need_ the interaction in > > order to have a bridging firewall > > that would be a brouter and not a bridge..Filering on IP at link layer.. > yuck. > > It's really a crime against humanity but then that's never stopped It's just a damn useful thing when you have to protect a network withouth having to replace a router (which might not even be there) or reassign addresses, and the fact you can do that in FreeBSD is a big selling point for FreeBSD's native bridging. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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