* Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alf...@gmail.com> [2009-04-28 02:08]: > > > And again, I think you mean that running a bridge under OpenBSD is > > perhaps > > > not the fastest or brightest solution. And I trust you, But again, I have > > > yet to hear a single technical argument on why running, for example, > > Snort > > > inline on other platforms is a bad idea and makes one stupid. > > > > You are free to read: > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/if_bridge.c > > > Is it something in the "on other platforms" sentence that you don't > understand? The link you provide is for OpenBSD code. And it's now clear to > me that bridging in OpenBSD consumes a lot of resources and developers > dislike it. So I don't get your point.
"you don't get the point" seems to be the key issue here. i told you before it is not an OpenBSD problem. it is implemented the way it is because you kind of have to do it this way, or similiar. -- 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
