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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:52:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph ng_bridge and ipfilter
Message-ID:  <200103281652.f2SGq6D47085@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103280444.GAA89371@info.iet.unipi.it> "from Luigi Rizzo at Mar 28, 2001 06:44:30 am"

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > > 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.

The customer is always right... :-)

-Archie

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