Re: Bridging + Routing with the same box

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
23 Jul 1996 09:57:48 -0700

Arik Baratz (arikb@ccarik.technion.ac.il) wrote:

: Hello folks

: Is there a possibility (today) to bridge one type of protocol (IPX)
: between two lans, yet route TCP/IP in the "regular" manner?

: Now don't go and tell me bridging is in the MAC level - I know it is.
: Is there a way, still, to discern packets for bridging, and leave the
: others be (for the routing code)?

There is a patch on sunsite to do that for 1.2.13. The recent kernel code is
not able to do that yet as far as I understand it.