Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:18:59 +1300 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> To: Tom <rockwater@HotPOP.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging Message-ID: <20070124221859.GA53602@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <861wloanag.fsf@lc.rock> References: <20070117013943.GD12548@heff.fud.org.nz> <861wloanag.fsf@lc.rock>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:47:51PM +0800, Tom wrote: > Hi, I would like to help Great, thanks. I think the following topics need descriptions added to them to describe what they are and what scenario it would be typically used in. High Traffic on a Segment Using a bridge as a bridge, i.e to cut down broadcasts. The handbook already has this. Filtering/Traffic Shaping Firewall Using a bridge to packet filter traffic and queueing with altq or dummynet Layer2 VPN Hooking a bridge up with EtherIP to tunnel layer 2 packets Layer2 Redundancy What spanning tree is and why you would use it. Rave the merits of RSTP which is so much faster Virtual Machines Hooking up tap interfaces from VMs such as qemu or vmware to the hosts Ethernet adapter. the autobridge functions in rc.d can do this automatically. and so on... Next will be to add the commands used to set up each scenario, I can do this. cheers, Andrew
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