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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:29:30 -0400
From:      "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Bridging and port mirroring
Message-ID:  <2b5f066d0709130929w7c4aa02ax4bc25282ff7122c5@mail.gmail.com>

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I've poked around on the web, but come up empty.  And I find it hard
to believe there's not a simple way to do this, if it hasn't been done
before.

I've got a server with two nics configured for bridging and running
bunches of ipfw rules.  I'd like to add a 3rd NIC and have it mirror
the 2nd NIC (so all traffic into and out of nic2 goes to nic3), so I
can run an IDS on another server.  Yes, I know that has the potential
to overload nic3 if there is a lot of traffic going in and out of
nic2, but that's not an issue for me.

Has anyone done this before, or know how to do this?

Thanks,
--Brian



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