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Old 23rd July 2013
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jggimi,

You're describing the ideal situation. I would really like to replace the home router with an OpenBSD router, but chances are 99.999% that won't happen.

You see, I'm living in my Uncle's house. He pays for the internet. Furthermore, our ISP sends threatening emails when they think we are running "a server of any kind" off our network. If I was feeling brave, I could start to mess around with PPPoE or whatever his router uses to authenticate with his ISP, but my Uncle would have a fit and the ISP may decide to terminate our service.

Good idea but not applicable here.

The main purpose of the bridge was to keep track of my stuff's bandwidth usage via pmacct and apply rate limiting according to some limits the ISP has set (2GB down per 24/hr period.) The second purpose of the bridge (I had hoped) would be to act as an SSH gateway using the vether.

I read vether would be good for this purpose but originally I was looking into creating something using vlan. Not sure if vlan is even useable for this purpose.
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