Re: [suse-security] SuSEfirewall2 not routing when both nics on samesubnet

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 12.40, b@rry.co.za wrote:

RE: [suse-security] SuSEfirewall2 not routing when both nics on samesubnet if you want routing between interfaces on the same subnet, you should be setting up an ethernet bridge.

Err... just for clarification. If you use a bridge, you're doing bridging, not routing. A bridge forwards traffic on Layer 2, based on physical addresses, ie MAC addresses. A router is a layer 3 device, forwarding logical addresses, eg IP addresses. Per default, bridging will let anything through, unless traffic is filtered in some way. Other than that, bridging between interfaces will work. Just a thought... //Tony