Re: 2.2.5 kernel/routing/firewalling

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:11:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I thought I probably was, thats why I looked at the 'Bridging' mini-howto
> > but I couldnt see whether it was possible or not to make it do
> > filtering/firewalling without having to make it the default router
> > as well. Its starting to look as though I cant, although one suggestion
> > so far is to use rarp. This may cause me some headaches - I have
>
> You can add firewalling to the bridge code. Nobody has done it yet but
> the kernel is designed so it is possible

I just used proxy arp (not rarp as above) to proxy for machines on the
other side.. With a quick (and very dangerous) TTL hack, I had a network
transparent firewall..

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