As long as you don't want to access the device remotely. Robert
On 8/30/07 3:42 PM, "Michael L Torrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Robert LeBlanc College of Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801)422-1882 -------------------- 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
