Re: Transparent proxy feature?

From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins_at_cis.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:51:31 +0000
Antal Rutz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nowadays I have to use a special firewall software ('zorp') but
> unfortunately it only runs on linux. the reason is that only linux
> has the feature (transparent proxying) to listen on/send packets (sourcing)
> from other IP addresses than the machine has. (maybe with an extra kmod)
> 
> The developers told me that they aren't familiar with FreeBSD but would
> port their software to it if the OS had support for that t-proxy.
> 
> The question is: Is there any plan to support that thing (maybe through
> ipfw, pf or ipfilter - no idea) or is that too sick?
> 
> thanks alot.

I have used transparent bridging with FreeBSD in the past and it worked 
great for this sort of thing.


http://www.kozubik.com/published/freebsd_bridging_ipfw.txt

Chris
Received on Sat Mar 12 2005 - 10:46:12 UTC

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