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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Transparent cache/Bridge with FreeBSD
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A client has asked me to build a transparent Web cache that acts as
a bridge, not a router. I've never tried using FreeBSD as a bridge.
How would I set this up? Would the firewall rule that forwards
Web requests to the cache process be the same as on a system which
is operating as a router?

--Brett