Re: Bridge Transparent Proxy

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Grant Taylor a écrit :
> Brouters are usually used to allow globally routable systems IP 
> addresses to be used in front of and behind a firewall (of sorts).  I.e. 
> a small block of IP addresses that the brouter uses for its external IP 
> address as well as internal public servers use IP addresses from to be 
> directly accessible from the net with out any sort of NAT.
I'm curious : why is a bridge needed for this ? Doesn't a simple router 
do the job as well ?