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Date:      Tue, 27 May 2014 21:30:42 -0400
From:      Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
To:        Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: transparent bridge ~ firewall
Message-ID:  <7AE311B2-271B-4600-9DBC-4EC53F970EC0@vindaloo.com>
In-Reply-To: <537ADD0E.5020803@paz.bz>
References:  <537ADD0E.5020803@paz.bz>

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On May 20, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> wrote:

> Is it possible to configure fbsd so that it passes traffic thru two
> nics "transparently", (with a third nic installed as the management =
IP)?
>=20
> So that firewall rules can be applied between those two transparent
> nics? Don't want NAT, don't want routing. Just firewall "allow", =
"drop",
> or re-direct.
>=20
> I purchased a device which uses debian to do this. I would like to
> see if I can duplicate the functions on FreeBSD, my OS of choice.
>=20


FreeBSD may be able to do this by building a bridge device between two =
interfaces and then using pf on the individual interfaces. I'm not 100% =
on the capabilities of FreeBSD's bridge devices. I do this on OpenBSD =
and it works very well.=20

-- Chris


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