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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:39:11 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.hos.net>, "Peter S. Housel" <housel@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network bridge on current.
Message-ID:  <20000928093910.A24037@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009280032180.17364-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from "Julian Elischer" on Thu Sep 28 00:38:40 GMT 2000
References:  <20000928022230.A967@simon.catburg.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009280032180.17364-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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In the last episode (Sep 28), Julian Elischer said:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:11:54AM -0700, Peter S. Housel wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote:
> > > > I am wondering how to do network bridging on current.  The
> > > > description in the handbook seems to be out of date as the
> > > > sysctl IODs are no longer in evidence.  Does loading ng_bridge
> > > > substitute for building the kernel with OPTIONS BRIDGE?
> > > 
> > > Excuse my ignorance (and curiousity), but wouldn't it be cheaper
> > > to just buy a switch?
> > 
> > I intend to use it as a firewall.  The switch will live behind it.
>
> I am not sure about Luigi's bridging code. I know the dummynet stuff
> seems to connect with the ipfw code but I don't think that the bridge
> code does... (I may be wrong) So I don't know how you plan on
> filtering the bridged segments..

ipfw definitely supports filtering bridged packets;  there's even a
"bridge" keyword to match them explicitly.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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