Just like to say I have installed a bridging box at work in a commercial
environment (ISP/ content provider). Very well done, handles a great
amount of traffic very nicely, and seems extremely stable.

-> stockstandard redhat 7.2 install, with pretty much nothing selected.

-> updated modutils and tcpdump. Stuck in snort.

-> installed the redhat RPM's from the download page at
bridge.sourceforge.net


Within 10 minutes of installing and downloading all code, I had it up
and running. Took me a little bit to realise I had to turn on the
interface with "ifconfig drawbridge on" (I didnt see that anywhere in
the documentation I had read). Will have to endeavour my exact documents
when I have the rest of the box sorted out. So far been in operation for
a week under full network load (ie it sat between two machines which
were looping portscans and large traffic transfers between them). Thats
a lot more load than it will see on our internet link (I can only dream
of a 100mbit connection to the net).

Runs very nicely on a p233/64mb ram with 2 NIC's. It just works. All up,
30 minutes to have the bridging working.(including install and dnloads)
Not a single hitch with any of the firewalling or logging setups.

--> Big pat on the back for Lennert, you have once again proved the
domination of Linux. And once more, I can say to my boss "dont spend the
big bucks on big hardware and expensive software, spend it on me". Which
means if you ever need a beer, and you are in Perth, West Aussie, I will
provide.

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