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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:03:45 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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dnr wrote this message on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 18:01 +0300:
> are there any solution for emulating a network switch between network interfaces under FreeBSD 5.3?
> i cannot use ng_hub because it does not filter packets by their mac addresses...
> the purpose is switching between ngeth0,ngeth1 and em0.

bridge(4) is what you want..

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