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Donatas wrote:
> hello,
> 
> are there any solutions 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.
> 
> any ideas are welcome

Is this what you want?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html

Eric


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