From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Samad Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:07:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Linux bridging and cascaded switches Message-Id: <20070620040717.GT24808@samad.com.au> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0880815334==" List-Id: References: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A210B8D8@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> In-Reply-To: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A210B8D8@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> To: lartc@vger.kernel.org --===============0880815334== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Wlbg71WMOPzcvmIn" Content-Disposition: inline --Wlbg71WMOPzcvmIn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Greg Scott wrote: > > out of curiosity why would you want to bridge at the firewall. is > this meant to be a drop in-line firewall appliance >=20 > Long story but yes, it is essentially a drop in-line system. It's a > mess. =20 >=20 > So will that Internet router really see 4 "switches" - a switch, a > bridge, and 2 switches - between it and the internal servers? I don't > remember all my LAN rules but that feels way too deep to me. =20 I think that was the old 5-4-3 or was it 4-3-2 ... I think that was more in= the=20 days of repeater and broadcast hubs. Modern day switch I believe allow for= a=20 lot more. >=20 > - Greg >=20 --Wlbg71WMOPzcvmIn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeKf1kZz88chpJ2MRAoDJAKCsjeeVwyqjV/+fMyxHKCb7rqlPyACg45jv cIc8ysgphLcTuMvqwtZyw7E= =tuDL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Wlbg71WMOPzcvmIn-- --===============0880815334== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc --===============0880815334==--