Good evening, > Dear sirs and ladies! > > If I place my OpenBSD Firewall the foolwing way. > > Internet --> Firewall --> Router --> Switch > > How do I administer my Firewall? How do I SSH into it?
Two things. Firstly why would you have your firewall AFTER the router, the router decides where a packet goes, in this example the only thing you would be firewalling is WAN packets. A firewall should be handing both LAN and WAN, therefore come before the router, and filter what comes in from the router (WAN) and what comes in from the local network (LAN). Secondly, why would your router be separate from the firewall? I have never heard of a router that can't also do firewalling, so why cant the router do it, eliminates the entire problem. Also can I assume because you referenced "ssh" that you are running OpenBSD as a firewall? If so, run OpenBSD as a router as well and cut out the headache. Take care, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: [email protected]
