From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 26 17: 4:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2733114A14 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26642; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:04:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA07131; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:03:54 -0600 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id TAA14685; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:03:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:03:54 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199903270103.TAA14685@free.pcs> To: wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch vs bridge (fwd) X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-net In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >Mike Jenkins wrote: >> I find that rather useful. I'm sure >> some folks use them for 80/tcp http redirection for web >> caching. > >Well, more likely for bandwidth/performance management and hot failover. That's actually what the particular switch I have to deal with is doing; it an Alteon switch, set up as a transparent web proxy server. As I understand it, it intercepts all web traffic from the campus and directs it to a pool of proxies. I suppose it's useful for what it does. How would a layer-3 switch do the same thing? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message