Run Your Linux Firewall Halted for Extra Security

whenever whatever at whoever.net
Fri Feb 8 16:06:37 PST 2002


Did that with freebsd on a 1u rackmount, didn't apply any packet filter to 
it, just use ipfw for bandwidth management.

On Friday 08 February 2002 01:21 pm, you wrote:
> Can you set-up a linux firewall as a bridge?  With OpenBSD several people
> are setting up OpenBSD with two NICs with NO IPs and then bridging between
> them.  All traffic passes through the bridge and the firewall determins
> what to do with it, but there is no way to connect to the firewall.  Here
> is an article about it.  I haven't tried it, because I use my firewall for
> NAT also, but it sounds pretty cool.
>
> http://www.daemonnews.org/200103/ipf_bridge.html
>
>
> Dusty



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