* Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alf...@gmail.com> [2009-04-27 11:56]: > For a two-interface router/firewall, most of the traffic that reaches is > will probably have to traverse it anyways, so I don't see how a > two-interface bridge or a two-interface router will have different > workloads.
it has been pointed out, but if you don't read it the first time there is no point in repeating... > But, fortunately, someone on this thread pointed out good technical > arguments on why bridging in OpenBSD is perhaps not a good idea. . > But, to me, > it doesn't mean that bridging firewalls are a bad idea in other platforms. That is because, to you, networking an operating system internals are apparently black magic. It is not an OpenBSD problem. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
