> I need to setup a firewall for my office. There is already a > router/gateway box > but we dont have access to it in order to put a firewall on. > I would like to > use a LEAF box as a firewall directly behind the router. Is
You should provide lots more information about your existing setup. I'll focus on DHCP. Does the DHCP server live behind the existing router/gateway? Does the office network use real, routable IPs or private ones? > it possible to set > one of the LRP dists up as a firewall only? DHCP is already > setup on another > machine and I cannot start changing the IP's of the office > computers. There I don't understand. DHCP provides dynamic IPs, so the office computers may be changing IPs willy-nilly. DHCP clients are agnostic about the source of their DHCP services. In fact, they broadcast requests for those services to all (255.255.255.255). If one of the machines on your side of the router is providing DHCP service, the LEAF box could replace that DHCP server, or not, as you wish. If the DHCP server will be outside the router and LEAF boxes, you can use dhcrelay to pass DHCP requests and responses to the DHCP server. I can provide a copy of dhcrelay.lrp if you like, but you have bigger questions to answer before that package would be of any use to you. > isn't much mention of setting up a firewall solely in the > documentation that > I have seen, is there an example of what needs to be > configured for a LRP dist? > > > Any help is greatly appreciated, > > Cheers, > Brian -Richard --------- Apologies, I'll be clearer. All the machines reside behind router.The DHCP box assigns real routable IP's. There are also several machines with set IP's in the same range which cannot change. The LEAF box could do the DHCP job but I'd prefer to leave the current machine as is. What I'm looking to do is put the LEAF box immediatly behind the router/gateway and infront of all machines in the network. As the gateway is already set up and DHCP is taken care of I just need to configure a LEAF to be a transparent firewall. Thanks again. Brian. *************************** ADVERTISEMENT ****************************** For ALL the latest Soccer news on your club, GAA sports results and the latest on your F1 stars plus much more check out http://sport.iol.ie/sport. Sport On-Line.... It's a passion _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
