* Luca Corti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-21 18:34]: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:52 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I don't understand the logic of having multiple firewalls on one box. > > If one box can handle the throughput requirements of all the NICs, why > > not just one big firewall? > > Overlapping IP address space.
someone just needs to sit down and add the code to put interfaces into alternate routing tables and arp running there and you can have that on openbsd. ok, it is a bit of work (that I am not very interested in). but the hard part (introduction of multiple routing tables) is already done. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
