From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 08:11:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26295 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.neuronet.com.my ([202.184.153.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA26290 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: (qmail 7034 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1998 14:58:45 -0000 Received: from models.com.my (HELO bimbo.models.com.my) (202.184.153.18) by freebie.neuronet.com.my with SMTP; 15 Sep 1998 14:58:45 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980915230005.00d6dacc@mail.peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@mail.peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:00:05 +0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chas Subject: How to use FBSD as a proxy between firewall and LAN. (or shouldn't I ?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to bother you all but having read the archives and the ORA firewall book, I'm still pretty clueless. Trying to implement a firewall/network : |<--> Server Farm A | |<--> Server Farm B [INet]<--> Router <--> Firewall | |<--> FBSD Proxy <-- LAN | |<--> free The firewall is on a Sun box with a quad-NIC using commercial firewall software. The LAN has over 100 PCs. Does it make sense to use a FreeBSD box as I have shown above to act as a Proxy (and also router) between the LAN and the Firewall ? Does this network layout make sense or have I lost the plot ? (not that I really understood it in the first place). To set up the FreeBSD proxy above, will it really require static routes for all the PCs between the LAN and the Firewall ? Most sincere thanks in advance from a networking neophyte, chas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message