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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:44:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph ng_bridge and ipfilter
Message-ID:  <200103280444.GAA89371@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <3AC0CCC3.F7DD8133@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Mar 27, 2001 09:24:19 am"

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> > in this case, this person seemed to _need_ the interaction in
> > order to have a bridging firewall
> 
> that would be a brouter and not a bridge..Filering on IP at link layer..
> yuck.
> 
> It's really a crime against humanity but then that's never stopped

It's just a damn useful thing when you have to protect a network
withouth having to replace a router (which might not even be there)
or reassign addresses, and the fact you can do that in FreeBSD is
a big selling point for FreeBSD's native bridging.

	cheers
	luigi

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