I had promised a couple of people that I'd post results after I tested this
out, so here goes.

I have a Pfsense 0.81 box set up with three realtek cards set up in this
configuration:

rl0: OPT1       (bridged to WAN)
rl1: WAN        (static IP address)
rl2: LAN        (NAT'd RFC 1918 network)

The setup I used as an example is from the m0n0wall docs indicated here:
http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/examples-filtered-bridge.html

The question came up regarding the ability of LAN machines to access to
machines inside the DMZ serviced by OPT1.  In the m0n0wall documentation,
this is not possible, but in my preliminary testing I found that LAN
machines had no problem talking to the DMZ.  In talking to Scott, this comes
out of the fact that PfSense uses a different bridging mechanism than
m0n0wall and so this particular caveat is not an issue in PfSense.  Under a
default configuration, the LAN network segment(s) will have unfettered
access to the DMZ segment(s).

I hope this clears up some questions people might have about this kind of a
setup.


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