Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:36:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transparent Firewalling with FreeBSD (bridge and ipf) Message-ID: <20020226053631.L52727@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020226114158.12986.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:41:58AM -0800 References: <20020226114158.12986.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com>
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[Inappropriate cross-post to -newbies trimmed.]
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:41:58AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I was wondering, if it is possible to do transparent firewalling,
> with BRIDGE, and IPF support in FreeBSD. Basically, I have to use
> it in a fiber-optic environment, where security is a very big issue,
> and a transparent firewall has been suggested. I know OpenBSD can do
> this, but would be more happy to do it with FreeBSD.
No, FreeBSD does not have the hooks to do IPFilter in the briding
code... Which reminds me that I need to finish looking at how much
work it would take to do that.
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