Bridging Firewalls

From: Bob Yeaw (lamontfung@yahoo.com)
Date: 05/28/02 

From: lamontfung@yahoo.com (Bob Yeaw)
Date: 28 May 2002 08:40:58 -0700

I have been reading alot about bridging firewalls using OpenBSD and PF
or IPF and it seems like a great idea. Does anyone know of any
gotchas or problems with this approach? What attacks are possible on
a Packet filter with no IP address?

thanks,

bob

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