Hello,
Over the weekend I setup Bering as a Bridge and used shorewall version 2.0 (from
www.shorewall.net) for the firewall. As I didn't find out all the steps from
the documentation online I thought I would send this message so others would
have an easier time setting it up.
To save money I opt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the weekend I setup Bering as a Bridge and used shorewall version 2.0 (from
www.shorewall.net) for the firewall. As I didn't find out all the steps from
the documentation online I thought I would send this message so others would
have an easier time setting it up.
Sh
Quoting Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Over the weekend I setup Bering as a Bridge and used shorewall version 2.0
> (from
> > www.shorewall.net) for the firewall. As I didn't find out all the steps
> from
> > the documentation online I thought I would send this
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I see I misread the shorewall requirement line on that page. What extra does
> full bridge functionaliy give?
>
> I don't completely understand how briding works, just how I made it work with
> shorewall and bering. The bering user guide said that
I have a few questions regarding this...
Now, if I have this figured correctly, the bridge is transparent to your
ISP, so you would need another host behind the bridge to have an
address, correct? The use I have in mind would be statically assigned.
Also, I would expect the bridge still to wor
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Tony wrote:
> Now, if I have this figured correctly, the bridge is transparent to your
> ISP, so you would need another host behind the bridge to have an
> address, correct? The use I have in mind would be statically assigned.
It could also be dynamically assigned. Although
I had bridgeing working with shorewall 1.?? and Bering-uClibc (something)
about a year ago, when I was too stingy to buy a switch. (P90 + 2 ISA NE2000
compatible cards for the lan plus a dialup modem to the internet)
I ended up just replacing ppp0 in all the shorewall config files with br0
and it
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 18:16, Tony wrote:
> I have a few questions regarding this...
>
> Now, if I have this figured correctly, the bridge is transparent to your
> ISP, so you would need another host behind the bridge to have an
> address, correct? The use I have in mind would be statically assi
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 09:27 am, Richard Doyle wrote:
>
> A bridge doesn't have to have an IP, though perhaps you can't use
> Shorewall without one.
>
The experimental Shorewall bridge code has now been successfully tested with a
bridge that doesn't have an IP address.
-Tom
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Tom Eastep
