Hi,

I have a planned network topology that will run on OpenBSD that (at
the moment) will constitute of three boxes :

1 x Router (Openbsd running bgpd for connection to the outside world)
2 x Firewalls (running Openbsd)

I can't quite figure out the best way to deal with the "external" side
of the firewalls ? (Obviously the "internal" side would be CARP).

At the moment, since the devices are located in the same rack, I am
thinking of running a patch cable directly from each firewall to two
ports on the Router (i.e. F1a -> R1a and F2a to R1b).  The reason for
this is to avoid going via a switch and adding a point of failure
(yes, I know, I only have one "router".... but hopefully that will
change in the not too distant future !)

The problem is I can't quite figure out the OpenBSD software
configuration for that concept and how it inter-relate with CARP
running on the "internal" side of the firewalls ?

Should I be running OSPF ? iBGP ?  Or something else (switchd ? vether ?)

I'm terribly confused !

Bob

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