From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 27 7:42:50 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 1CAAB150A6 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 07:42:47 -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 JAA28108; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:42:27 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id JAA07119; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:41:56 -0600 Message-ID: <19990327094156.30720@right.PCS> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:41:56 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch vs bridge (fwd) References: <199903270103.TAA14685@free.pcs> <36FCF47D.403DECF3@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <36FCF47D.403DECF3@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Mar 03, 1999 at 08:08:45AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mar 03, 1999 at 08:08:45AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > 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?" "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from". Isn't VRRP RFC-2338? In this case, what I'm looking for is not to specify a first hop router, but some way to effectively insert a caching proxy for all outbound web traffic. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message