Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:51:31 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: Antal Rutz <arutz@mimoza.pantel.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transparent proxy feature? Message-ID: <4232D7C3.1010903@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050311223413.GA5126@mimoza.pantel.net> References: <20050311223413.GA5126@mimoza.pantel.net>
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Antal Rutz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nowadays I have to use a special firewall software ('zorp') but
> unfortunately it only runs on linux. the reason is that only linux
> has the feature (transparent proxying) to listen on/send packets (sourcing)
> from other IP addresses than the machine has. (maybe with an extra kmod)
>
> The developers told me that they aren't familiar with FreeBSD but would
> port their software to it if the OS had support for that t-proxy.
>
> The question is: Is there any plan to support that thing (maybe through
> ipfw, pf or ipfilter - no idea) or is that too sick?
>
> thanks alot.
I have used transparent bridging with FreeBSD in the past and it worked
great for this sort of thing.
http://www.kozubik.com/published/freebsd_bridging_ipfw.txt
Chris
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