From owner-freebsd-small Fri Nov 23 13: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from www.kozubik.com (www.kozubik.com [216.188.96.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD8137B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:05:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by www.kozubik.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fANKrDg19429; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:53:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Kozubik To: Yusmar Yahaya Cc: "Simon A. F. Lund" , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet filtering firewall bridge In-Reply-To: <20011120105655.F26384-100000@jupiter.my-freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can find a very detailed set of instructions on setting up ethernet bridges using FreeBSD here: http://www.kozubik.com/published/freebsd_bridging_ipfw.txt This is not specifically related to diskless systems, but if you read and understand that document, and also read and understand this: /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state You will be all set. This is if you want to make a hand-rolled system rather than using the PicoBSD image that has been mentioned earlier in this thread. ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Yusmar Yahaya wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Simon A. F. Lund wrote: > > > I am looking for a way to create a packet filtering firewall bridge without > > a harddrive and then i stumbled over PicoBSD. My question is: Can PicoBSD > > act as a bridge? And how? > > > In fact, yes. build picobsd using the bridge configurations and add ipfw > functions to the kernel config file. You need 2 NICs for that and only one > can have IP address. > > FreeBSD handbook page about bridging at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bridging.html > > Or.. check out theWall project : http://thewall.sourceforge.net > > > -- > ~Yusmar Yahaya > { opensource hackbox } > http://leafbug.net-gw.com (temporarily down) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message