From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 5:36:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D39B37B404 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:36:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020226133636.VMRN2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:36:36 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1QDaV856891; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:36:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" 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> References: <20020226114158.12986.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020226114158.12986.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:41:58AM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message