Re: [pfSense] [Bulk] IP Alias -vs- Proxy ARP for NAT

2015-03-11 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Espen Johansen wrote: > All the other options are poor > workarounds created when pfsense did not support true interface alias. > Nothing about any of them are "poor workarounds", there is a use for every option that's there. The bullet list on this page describes

Re: [pfSense] [Bulk] IP Alias -vs- Proxy ARP for NAT

2015-03-09 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 9, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Espen Johansen wrote: > Use IP alias if you are on 2.0+ > If you need redundancy (2xpfsense) use carp. All the other options are poor > workarounds created when pfsense did not support true interface alias. > I usually use Proxy ARP for 1:1 NAT virtual IP aliases.

Re: [pfSense] [Bulk] IP Alias -vs- Proxy ARP for NAT

2015-03-09 Thread Espen Johansen
Use IP alias if you are on 2.0+ If you need redundancy (2xpfsense) use carp. All the other options are poor workarounds created when pfsense did not support true interface alias. Brgds, Espen 8. mars 2015 16:18 skrev "Tim Hogan" : > I have seen that page and I don't know about "saying it all". I

Re: [pfSense] [Bulk] IP Alias -vs- Proxy ARP for NAT

2015-03-08 Thread Tim Hogan
I have seen that page and I don't know about "saying it all". I still cannot figure out what the advantages and disadvantages are. All I want is to be able to do a 1:1 NAT with some public IP addresses. These addresses do not need to be used by the firewall directly. So in this case it would

Re: [pfSense] [Bulk] IP Alias -vs- Proxy ARP for NAT

2015-03-08 Thread PiBa
Says it all: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_Virtual_IP_Addresses Which is better, that depends on what you need it to do. Tim Hogan schreef op 8-3-2015 om 13:48: I am setting up my firewall to do 1:1 NAT with a block of public IP addresses. I have found several posts about setting u