RE: [squid-users] Squid transparent proxy and bridge question

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:34:39 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, usman fool wrote:

> i was saying this because it was looking like he is running squid on that
> bridge.
> bsd bridges can have ip addresses dont know if its possible in linux or not.

Linux bridges can have IP addresses, and in fact is a must if you want to
run a proxy there but it is not the point.

> >ip forwarding is not needed in bridge mode.. bridge forwarding is..
>
> same reason i stated earlier.

ip forwarding should not be needed in a bsd bridge either.. a bridge is
by definition forwarding Ethernet frames, not IP forwarding.

Please do not confuse bridge with routing or proxy-arp. a bridge operates
at the Ethernet layer and is not related to IP forwarding while routing
(including proxy-arp) operates at the IP layer and needs IP forwarding.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 16:34:43 MST

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