On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, usman fool wrote: > i was saying this because it was looking like he is running squid on that > bridge. > bsd bridges can have ip addresses dont know if its possible in linux or not.
Linux bridges can have IP addresses, and in fact is a must if you want to run a proxy there but it is not the point. > >ip forwarding is not needed in bridge mode.. bridge forwarding is.. > > same reason i stated earlier. ip forwarding should not be needed in a bsd bridge either.. a bridge is by definition forwarding Ethernet frames, not IP forwarding. Please do not confuse bridge with routing or proxy-arp. a bridge operates at the Ethernet layer and is not related to IP forwarding while routing (including proxy-arp) operates at the IP layer and needs IP forwarding. Regards Henrik
