On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Larry Sampas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone bridged interfaces in embedded pfSense? I was wondering if
> support for bridging is compiled in the kernel.
>

Yes.


> I am running an Alix 2d3 board, and I can't run snort locally. Being
> too cheap and lazy to purchase or build a tap, I'd like to bridge the
> external interface to the unused interface and connect that to my
> snort sensor on a separate machine via crossover cable.
>

A bridge is not the same thing as a tap. You aren't going to get all
traffic forwarded over the bridge. pf's dup-to could accomplish this,
though it's not configurable in the GUI. You could hack filter.inc to
make it work.

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