Joshua Draper wrote: > Argh! It appears you are correct. The ironic thing is traffic gets > passed just fine if you have the filtering rules turned off. But the > whole point of the machine, filtering, does not work if the bridge > does not have an IP address. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess > it needs to be behind a router.
No that's not true. A bridge works fine, even without *any* ip address assigned to any interface. It merely needs the interface. That's the nice thing about a bridge. It's completely transparent to either side and doesn't show up in a traceroute. > > Joshua Draper > Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering > Brigham Young University -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
