From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 23:55:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848A237B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.131.254.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.131.254] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16CcKY-0005Al-00; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 23:55:35 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB87qgb21689; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:52:14 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: "James F. Hranicky" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Bridge on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011207235214.X8975@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20011208022142.9A9BE6ACE@mail.cise.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011208022142.9A9BE6ACE@mail.cise.ufl.edu>; from jfh@cise.ufl.edu on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:21:42PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:21:42PM -0500, James F. Hranicky wrote: > > I've seen where OpenBSD has good support for setting up a machine > as an ethernet bridge/firewall box. Is the bridging code in FreeBSD > up to snuff for the same type of application, or should I go with > OpenBSD? I already know FreeBSD very well, so I'd rather stay with > that if possible, but I'd take stability and performance over > familiarity. ipfw(8) will work fine with bridging in FreeBSD. ipf(8) will not. It depends on which you plan to use. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message