> On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/03/2015 09:33, Bryan D. wrote:
>> So, for what I'm doing, an IP Alias VIP seems like it should work where a 
>> CARP VIP works -- but it doesn't appear that a Proxy ARP VIP should, since I 
>> think I'm using them by the "firewall itself" (i.e., port forwarding and 
>> NATing) ... no -- or does that mean something different?
>> 
> As I understand it, "used by the firewall itself" means traffic which 
> terminates *on* the firewall: for example, the firewall admin web page, and 
> any services which run on the firewall itself (e.g. DNS cache, packages you 
> have installed)
> 
> Traffic which is forwarded *through* the firewall, including NAT, is not 
> addressed to the firewall itself.

OpenVPN, IPSec, etc.  If there is a socket listening on pfSense, that is the 
“firewall itself.”  Or “bind” in the doc.

This isn’t that complicated.  What, exactly, is OP trying to do?

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