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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Bridge Transparent Proxy
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:36:50 +0200
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Grant Taylor a =E9crit :
>=20
> Brouters are usually used to allow globally routable systems IP=20
> addresses to be used in front of and behind a firewall (of sorts).  I.e=
.=20
> a small block of IP addresses that the brouter uses for its external IP=
=20
> address as well as internal public servers use IP addresses from to be=20
> directly accessible from the net with out any sort of NAT.

I'm curious : why is a bridge needed for this ? Doesn't a simple router=20
do the job as well ?