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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:49:50 +0100
From:      Joost Bekkers <joost@bps.jodocus.org>
To:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfilter + bridge
Message-ID:  <20011119094950.A72386@bps.jodocus.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111190124390.11178-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>; from rj45@slacknet.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:27:24AM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111190124390.11178-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:27:24AM -0700, RJ45 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I Wanted to ask if bridge between 2 NIC on FreeBSD allow ipfilter to being
> used over it. If I have 2 NICs one on the external bad internet and the
> other on My lan and I bridge between the 2 interface and I Want to use
> ipfilter to filter traffic between the 2 NICs, is it realiable does it
> work?? For some reason I need to use a bridge and I Cannot use different
> IP Addresses for the 2 NICs, I can't have a hidden internal LAN.
> I was used to do it with OpenBSD and it worked but I'd like to do it with
> FreeBSD.
> 

I don't know about ipfilter, but i know ipfw will work. Keep in mind though that
it will only filter IP packets. All others will be passed unless you hack around that in
the kernel. The man pages are wrong on this point.

-- 
greetz Joost
joost@jodocus.org

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