Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 07:13:54 +0200 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Networking Question Message-ID: <20020507051354.GE62329@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <3CD6BDE4.4060308@alexdupre.com> References: <20020506124528.GA7841@submonkey.net> <20020506090308.A20367@blackhelicopters.org> <3CD6BDE4.4060308@alexdupre.com>
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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
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