On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:31:16AM -0500, Duncan Shannon wrote:
>Hey gang-
>
>Ive got a network card, and one IP on it using gSheild as my firewall.

So your firewall has only one network card init? 

>
>Ive got a dozen (could be a hunderd or two in the future) other IP's 
>that i want to be routable (they are all public ip's).
>
>I want to continue to use gShield.  
>
>A friend once mentioned putting all the other IP's on the loopback IF. 
>This made all the other IP's world routable, and all the firewalling was 
>done on the eth0.
>Does any of this make sense? IF not, what is the best way to get lots of 
>IP's on a single NIC, with easy firewalling?

2 choices.
1.) IP Aliases and some clever iptables rules.
2.) http://bridge.sourceforge.net/ (linux bridge stuff)
	 http://openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html (OpenBSD
	 filtering bridge)


>
>duncan
>
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