Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use FBSD as a proxy between firewall and LAN. (or shouldn't I ?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809151708560.19769-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980915230005.00d6dacc@mail.peace.com.my>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, chas wrote: > 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). Looks OK to me. > To set up the FreeBSD proxy above, will it really require > static routes for all the PCs between the LAN and the Firewall ? No; run NATD on the FreeBSD box and you'll only need to allocate a single IP to it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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