           SPELL=bridge-utils
         VERSION=1.5
          SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.tar.gz
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bridge/${SOURCE}
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:4e525fbd3defb509664ef3b728d9e5edfb92beaebdb5d7733d8203fb38cb3f4bb54d02dc1e28813889a2ee19c78b9b47da6d99c8032481a7fd7f104658dea7c3
        WEB_SITE="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge"
         ENTERED=20030126
      LICENSE[0]=GPL
        KEYWORDS="net"
           SHORT="Turns you box into a (poor) switch."
cat << EOF
Bridging is the act of connecting together multiple ethernets to appear as one
large ethernet to the participating hosts. This is done by having one device
with multiple ethernet interfaces, called a bridge, listen on all its
interfaces for packets, including packets that are not destined to it, and
selectively resend these packets on other interfaces. This process is totally
transparent to the participating hosts.

How do you know whether you want bridging? In general, it's hard to say. There
is a simple guideline, however. If you want to connect multiple ethernets
together which are all part of the same IP subnet, bridging is what you want.
Conversely, if you want to connect different IP subnets together, bridging is
not what you want (you want routing instead).
EOF
