Re: bridging and IP-filtering

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:59:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Chris Osicki wrote:

> I did it as well and it works fine. The drawbacks are:
>
> 1. It is _not_ (IP-)transparent
> 2. May require large routing tables (quite large in my case)
> 3. May require large ARP table (my case as well) which has to
> be maintained
> 4. Can't be just dropped into an existing network (see 2. and 3.)

Depends on how you define transparent and how you are droping it in..

The network I dropped it into had ~50 computers on one side and ~5 on the
other. It was transparent in that we didn't have to go 'touch' 50 windows
boxes.

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