Re: Transparent proxy feature?

From: Chris Hodgins (chodgins_at_cis.strath.ac.uk)
Date: 03/12/05

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    Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:51:31 +0000
    To: Antal Rutz <arutz@mimoza.pantel.net>
    
    

    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
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