Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:45:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@27in.tv> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firewall & DSL Message-ID: <2689.216.153.202.45.1007156721.squirrel@www.27in.tv>
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Well, that depends... The 5660 is a router, are you going to be using it as such? or are you disabling the routing functions and using it as a bridge? * If you were going to use it as a bridge, you would then need 2 NIC's in your BSD box. One would go to the 5660 and the other would go out to your switch. The NIC going to the 5660 would be configured with your public IP address (static, PPPoE, DHCP, etc...) the NIC go to the switch would then have a private address on it and would be the default gateway for the rest of your network. * If you are going to use it as a router, I don't see how you would use the FreeBSD box as a firewall as it would just be another device on your private network block, no traffic would be passing _through_ it to the other machines on your network. I could think of a couple ways to make this work, but they're rather convoluted and add unnecessary complexity. --Chris > Greetings, > I have just had DSL installed. The Modem/Router is a > SpeedStream 5660. I have a FreeBSD 4.3-release box > that I want to make a firewall. How do I physically > put the device in the network to give protection ? > > Each network jack is a direct run to a port on my > SuperStackerII 3300 10/100 ethernet switch. > > How to install/configure the Firewall software is not > the issue, its how to connect things that I'm interested > in. > > thanks, > Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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