Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:01:03 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Failover firewalls with ipfw? Message-ID: <20010122180102.V253@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20010122084251.N9165@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:42:51AM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101191426030.89288-100000@lowrider.lewman.org> <20010122084251.N9165@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:42 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> As a related issue, has anyone developed code what would allow
> two boxes to share natd map entries? (dummynet is a
> requirement, so suggestions to use IPfilter/IPnat, or similar,
> won't work). This would allow a NAT'd TCP connection to
> fail-over between two boxes.
Although I never did this, the list archive holds repeated
reports on successfully running ipf and ipfw in tandem. So you
can use ipfw for dummynet (and maybe uid / gid stuff?) and ipf
for filtering / translating. See the archive for the sequence
the packets are handed up in. Or UTSL.
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