> still don't see how a bridge would be totally desirable, bu then it's > possible I'm just being incredibly dense. I think I'd need more > information about your setup such as addresses and netmasks to offer > any input on that. >
i only need what it is working (filtering and redundant maybe with QOS) and keep it simple as we can. i have a class A/public ip's subnet with /24 xx.xxx.xxx.1 the GW of the datacenter xx.xxx.xxx.252 our proxy ARP/iptables xx.xxx.xxx.2->xx.xxx.xxx.254 (public servers) (xx.xxx.xxx is the same number here)