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From: "James Mello" <james.mello@wamu.net>
Subject: RE: need to forward req between same network ip within same machine
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:48:49 -0700
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To: 'Antony Stone' <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>, 'netfilter' <netfilter@lists.samba.org>

> Do you know what a network bridge is ?   Have you considered 
> whether this is 
> what you need ?

Just as a side note. There are transparent (i.e. bridging) firewalls out
there. Ipfw on FreeBSD being an example. While not for the faint of
heart it would be nice to see this kind of functionality with iptables
in the future.

	-- Cheers
	-- James