From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 6 22:19:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr4.ruhr.de [212.23.134.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 555B537B405 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 22:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10009 invoked by uid 10); 7 May 2002 05:19:24 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g475Dsp83611 for doc@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 May 2002 07:13:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ue) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 07:13:54 +0200 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Networking Question Message-ID: <20020507051354.GE62329@nathan.ruhr.de> Mail-Followup-To: doc@freebsd.org References: <20020506124528.GA7841@submonkey.net> <20020506090308.A20367@blackhelicopters.org> <3CD6BDE4.4060308@alexdupre.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CD6BDE4.4060308@alexdupre.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:16PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: > Michael Lucas wrote: > >You might say, "in a similar manner to a bridge." > > I don't see many similarities. A bridge is a bridge, a router is a router, > both can do packet filtering, but it isn't enough. Exactly. FreeBSD can act as a bridge in such a situation (that is the reason for the bridging code maintained by Luigi(?)), but if you are filtering packets, you are at layer 3. A bridge is layer 2 device that handles frames. > >I also really dislike the capitalization of Bridge. > > I agree. Count me in. /s/Udo -- Tell init to lock and load - we're going zombie slaying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message