Being a victim of the bridging wars from ten or fifteen years ago, I can assure you that bridging is a lousy solution and not the one we should use as a strategy. What we learned then, people will relearn now.
Brian Peter Bieringer wrote: > > --On Sunday, February 03, 2002 12:18:28 PM +0100 Brian E Carpenter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Count the light bulbs and electric motors in your house. I don't > > want to exclude *anything* for the future. Luxury cars already > > contain several CAN subnets. > > Bridging can solve the problem and it's cheaper than routing. > Perhaps a cost reduce factor. > > BTW: firewalling can be done also in a intelligent bridge. Afaik > there is already such a project going on connecting Linux bridging > with netfilter. > > Peter -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
