Transparent cache/Bridge with FreeBSD

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04:09PM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 20:02, Brett Glass wrote:
> > A client has asked me to build a transparent Web cache that acts as
> > a bridge, not a router. I've never tried using FreeBSD as a bridge.
> > How would I set this up? Would the firewall rule that forwards
> > Web requests to the cache process be the same as on a system which
> > is operating as a router?
> 
> Luigi just committed some changes to the ipfw code so it  can forwards packets 
> also when acting as a bridge.

i actually have not committed yet that code, but the patch to ip_fw2.c
is trivial and you can grab it from the list archive.

	cheers
	luigi

> Check the ipfw- list (a message of Luigi of 22 September).
> 
> Ciaoooo
> 
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