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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:12:30 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Transparent cache/Bridge with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030929131230.A76047@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <200309292204.09316.gmarco@giovannelli.it>; from gmarco@giovannelli.it on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04:09PM %2B0200
References:  <200309291802.MAA24393@lariat.org> <200309292204.09316.gmarco@giovannelli.it>

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04:09PM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 20:02, Brett Glass wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Luigi just committed some changes to the ipfw code so it  can forwards packets 
> also when acting as a bridge.

i actually have not committed yet that code, but the patch to ip_fw2.c
is trivial and you can grab it from the list archive.

	cheers
	luigi

> Check the ipfw- list (a message of Luigi of 22 September).
> 
> Ciaoooo
> 
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