Thanks to those who replied (Alan Clegg, Ed Rolison, Sean Cheney). All pointed towards ipfilter, unfortunately I already had this installed. >From what I can see IPFilter provides comprehensive packet filtering and NAT but does not provide bridging, for this it depends on the underlying operating system. Static arp and routes may be an option and I have had a try setting them up but couldn't quite get them to work. The problem with this appears to be the default route and packet forwarding across the interfaces. Given time constraints (have to get this working ASAP) and that this box is only intended to be a very cheap (i.e. - no budget) temporary firewall, I have decided to use OpenBSD or NetBSD. Both of these OS's can be configured to bridge using the brconfig command. Hopefully, this will do until I can get some sort of budget and put in something like the full version of SunScreen. Craig Scott IT Development Officer South Tyneside College -----Original Message----- From: Craig Scott [mailto:craig.scott@stc.ac.uk] Sent: 07 January 2002 16:08 To: 'Sunmanagers' Subject: Network bridge Is it possible to set up a Solaris 8 Intel box with two network interfaces both on the same subnet and have it act as a transparent bridge? For example, interface elx0 is connected to a 192.168.0.128/255.255.255.240 network and so is elx1, I want traffic to seamless flow through the two interfaces with packet filtering taking place on the Solaris 8 box, I believe this is possible in OpenBSd with brconfig command and ipfilter is there a free way of doing this with Solaris? Will summarise Craig Scott IT Development Officer South Tyneside College _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jan 8 07:33:10 2002
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