From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 5:49:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu (beach.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5A137B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cise.ufl.edu (waterspout.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.52]) by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C5C6B1D; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:49:44 -0500 (EST) To: "Jerry Murdock" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet Bridge on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message from "Jerry Murdock" of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:58:23 EST." <00e501c18001$2bbe50e0$0201a8c0@itraktech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:49:44 -0500 From: "James F. Hranicky" Message-Id: <20011210134944.24C5C6B1D@mail.cise.ufl.edu> 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 "Jerry Murdock" wrote: > For a basic bridge both are fine, but OBSD is a more refined bridging > implementation. > > OBSD offers spanning tree support and it's brconfig allows finer grain control > than what FBSD does. From what I've read OBSD 3.0 with pf will allow both in > and out rules as well. > > If your firewalling, using the firewall package your most familiar with my be > the determining factor. FBSD requires using IPFW for bridge filtering, OBSD > 3.0 uses their (brand) new pf. OBSD 2.9 uses IPF. PF was designed to be > mostly IPF compatible in it's syntax. If your familiar with IPF, moving to PF > should be relatively painless. > > However, FBSD works fine and is a very good, stable performer. If your > familiar with FBSD and don't see anything in the OBSD brconfig man page you > _must_ have, I'd stick with FBSD unless you just want to get your feet wet > with OBSD, or want IPF(-like) support. Thanks, that's exactly what I was after :-> I'll mull over the two and make a decision hopefully soon. Again, thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314D CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh@cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message