Subject: Re: bridging question
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/12/1998 19:25:02
At 12:22 AM 8/12/98 -0500, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
>In message <ML-3.5-SPY.902898769.7419.dustin@bleu.west.spy.net>, Dustin
Salling
>s writes:
>> Has anyone ever made a bridge out of a NetBSD box?
>
>Yes.
>
>>Seems like it'd be
>>simple enough, just do something like, add two ethernet cards on the same
>>address, proxy arps across them, and forward packets between them, system
may
>>do it anyway.
>
>I can't remember what I needed to do, but I think I needed to do *something*.
>Not hard.
>
>> I'd like to do a bridging firewall (if ipf allowed) so's that I could
>>stick it between my DSL router and the rest of my network (assuming pacbell
>>gets my trouble ticket closed before I die). Much like the PIX if any of
you
>>are familiar.
>
>I believe people have done things like this before, and it's a natural
>application for ipf.
>
>-s
>