From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 12: 1:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D280537B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bob (phantom.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f0GJwH501400; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:58:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Message-ID: <002201c07ff7$2d982810$0f10a7d1@bob> Reply-To: "Gerald T. Freymann" From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: , References: <000301c0800a$6757a7c0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> Subject: Re: A really easy one for you networking guru's Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:01:56 -0500 Organization: eagle.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What is a bridge. A bridge. Think of it literally. A bridge connecting one side to the other. You take your car and drive down the road, along a bridge and more road. In networking terms... a "bridge" is simply an extended link from Point A to Point B... (and most are extremely easy to configure). Same network, it's just farther away. We have used wireless bridges and DSL bridges in our company. Setting up a bridge is usually brain dead simple. Now... routing a subnet, that's a completely different, more complicated topic. -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message