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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd as a bridge
Date: 27 May 1996 17:59:19 GMT
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ttsai@netdoor.com (Tim Tsai) wrote:

>   Can a Freebsd box act as an ethernet bridge?

No, at least there's no easy way.  (I guess you could write an
application abusing the bpf devices, but that's certainly not what you
wanna do.)

But it can act as a router.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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