Re: Firewall without network Stack

From: Duane Waddle (waddle1@us.ibm.com)
Date: 09/29/01


Subject: Re: Firewall without network Stack
To: FOCUS-LINUX@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <OF80C000CA.E051C298-ON86256AD6.005F010E@raleigh.ibm.com>
From: "Duane Waddle" <waddle1@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:21:15 -0500

Closest thing I've seen and used is IPFilter in bridging mode on OpenBSD.
You dont _have_ to configure an IP address on the firewall machine at all
(thus making it pretty shadowy), but the networking code in the kernel is
used. Worked really well for me once before when I wasn't able to NAT or
subnet further.

--D

Duane Waddle
waddle1@us.ibm.com
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..." -- RFC1925

Has anyone seen anything like this?



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