Re: firewall on a bridge

Jean-François Gobin wrote:

Hello There,

I can't remember an option in Checkpoint to do transparent or bridge firewall.

Cisco PIX (at least the FWSM blade, not yet checked for the same in PIX 7) has a functionnality called transparent firewall. you can then put access-list based on IP or MAC.

OpenBSD can also do it, as well as Linux.

If this is a intensively used server, I would advice switching to a *nix variant and not to Windows, which may show its limits "at peak".

Thanks for the recommendations. It is not a heavily used server.


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