Transparent cache/Bridge with FreeBSD

Gianmarco Giovannelli gmarco at giovannelli.it
Mon Sep 29 13:08:37 PDT 2003


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.

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

Ciaoooo



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