Re: [plug] Network Bridging

[Kiko Da Komodo Dragon]

Thanks to everyone who replied!

 

After sending out my original mail, I installed linux on my box and started doing research on my own.

 

I'm convinced that I don't need to change my distribution with another one as was mostly recommended. However, I do need to find a good resource for netfilter/iptables and network bridging to do what I need to do.

 

am currently looking at linux bridging (transparent firewalling ) with http://bridge.sourceforge.net/

 

hope this works!

 

again, thanks.

Jose L. Catubigan Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Kiko Da Komodo Dragon wrote:

> guys,
>
> our current office network is flat with everyone belonging to the same
> segment and everyone connected to cascaded hubs.
>
> this has generated a lot of networks storms sometimes rendering the
> network unusable.
>
> am in-charged of maintaining a set of PCs in a small section that
> mostly share files together. to keep my small network from being
> affected by the rest, i plan to put a Linux firewall between the
> office segment and my internal network.
>
> however one of the requirements is that both networks still has to be
> able to communicate bi-directionally, meaning connections can be
> initiated be anyone.
>
> the plan on the drawing board is for the NIC facing the office segment
> to have several virtual IPs and interfaces. each virtual IP
> corresponds to one internal IP of my internal network. any traffic
> directed to a particular virtual IP will be redirected to the
> corresponding internal machine -- a 1:1 NAT. the internal machine will
> receive the packet with the source IP still as the originating machine
> and not the IP of the firewall. all traffic going out from the
> internal network will have a source virtual IP associated with it as
> it goes to the office segment.
>
> am not sure how to do this with iptables/netfilter. could anyone point
> me to a good source?
>
> thanks!
>
> kiko
>
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Hi,

Ipcop (www.ipcop.org) can satisfy your requirement.

HTH,
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