--- Ranjeet Shetye <ranjeet.shetye@zultys.com> wrote: > > I think that we need to clearly define the > terminology for Kevin. Yes, thank you! :) I am always up for learning new things. So it was just done at layer 2 instead of layer 3. I understand now. BUT, back to what the original poster said. He said that he wanted to have the bridge do firewalling and NAT'ing (If I read his post correctly). So according to what is written below, he can't do that... right? > Hence when you downsize your (layer 3) router into a > (layer 2) bridge, > your neo-bridge becomes a layer 2 entity and > disappears from the layer 3 > i.e. it is no longer visible at layer 3. Therefore > no firewalling, no > NAT. ===== Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- <Red Hat Certified Engineer> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com