Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:08:35 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Systems Administrator <geniusj@ods.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing between 2 interface.. Message-ID: <20000305000835.B49899@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003042241070.52500-100000@ods.org>; from geniusj@ods.org on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:46:29PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003042241070.52500-100000@ods.org>
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:46:29PM -0500, Systems Administrator wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a "dropin firewall" .. Such that when a packet reaches > our network, it goes through the main router (the cisco) and then passes > through the firewall (the freebsd box) and then hits the rest of the lan.. > I'm trying to do this in this way.. > > 63.236.135.1(Main Router) -> 63.236.135.232(Firewall NIC 1) -> > 63.236.135.233 (Firewall NIC 2 -- Same Machine) -> rest of lan > > If that makes any sense :).. If you could help me with this.. I am very > lost right now ;).. If you need more details, etc.. Feel free to contact > me.. From the very brief description you gave, it sounds like you might want to use bridging (see bridge(4)). The sketch you gave would not route well be cause you are not subnetted properly. You can either bridge (and that would _really_ make it "drop in") or you could use a RFC 1918 net between the router and firewall. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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