Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:04:17 -0400 From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: "Laurie Zimmerman" <ljzimmerman@mindspring.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MONOWALL WAN Message-ID: <226ae0c60609011204r14e8397ey2b1fe525ab9eab71@mail.gmail.com>
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> I have a client who would like to share a DSL connection with a neighboring > office. I would like to put my clients network (they only need to share > Internet) on a separate IP network behind a monowall. My question is, will > monowall allow a private address (the LAN IP of router) to be its WAN > address? > > Thanks > > Laurie Hi Laurie, I'm not sure about monowall, but I know for sure that an OpenBSD or FreeBSD machine running OpenBSD's packet filter will do the trick very nicely. Check out pf(4) and pf.conf(5) or the FreeBSD Handbook on the subject. You can also grab a copy of Jacek Artymiak's book "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 2nd edition" which covers pf(4) very well. Some URL on the subject: - FreeBSD Handbook Section 26.4 The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) and ALTQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html - pf(4) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html - pfctl(8) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE - pf.conf(5) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf.conf&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE - Jacek Artymiak's book "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 2nd edition" http://www.artymiak.com/books/index.html Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
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