Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:52:06 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph ng_bridge and ipfilter Message-ID: <200103281652.f2SGq6D47085@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200103280444.GAA89371@info.iet.unipi.it> "from Luigi Rizzo at Mar 28, 2001 06:44:30 am"
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Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > 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. The customer is always right... :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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