From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 27 7: 9:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AA214C8E for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 07:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01510; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:08:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36FCF47D.403DECF3@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:08:45 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch vs bridge (fwd) References: <199903270103.TAA14685@free.pcs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > 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? VRRP. Gee, why do something with a standard when we can "extend and extinguish?" -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message