> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesper Wallin > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do? > > Heya.. > > If you have a machine with vmware installed.. the machine has one NIC > connected to a > network which is using a DHCP server which only allow 1 ip per MAC. You > start the box > and you get an IP.. then you install vmware, install another operating > system on it > (doesn't really mather which) and set the network device in vmware to > "bridged" and > start it.. then the virtual machine in vmware will get it's own IP even if > the MAC > restricts 1 ip per MAC.. > > Therefore, it IS possible to change/spoof/hide/fake MAC and have a virtual > NIC.. So my > question is, how can I do this without vmware and just virtual NIC on my > system? My idea > is to have one box infront of all other boxes in my network but yet use > all 5 ips my ISP > allow me to have. If I get this work, I can do stats, filter the whole > network, log > traffic and so on instead if setting up 5 firewalls, 5 loggers, etc but > yet have 5 > differet IPs.. > > > Regards, > Jesper Wallin
I think IP Aliasing would be what you are looking for, or setting up a filtering bridge/transparent firewall. Check out... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.h tml - or - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index. html Nick Radonicich [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
