Re: bridging firewall

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

> I'm trying to work out how to build a bridging firewall using a Dell 833 
> with 512MB RAM and up 3 Nics when the "outside" is via a USB Speedtouch 
> 330. In other words can i tie the usb bus to the nics on the pci bus in 
> anyway? All I can find so far are how to's that use 2 nics etc that get 
> outside via a hub/switch etc. Can iptables/ipchains be config'd for use 
> with a usb ADSL modem and an ethernet nic?

it shouldn't matter that some of your network devices are PCI NICs and one 
is a USB adsl modem... the bridging functionality is in a higher layer 
(network) than that driver layer.

i wouldn't expect the configuration of this bridge to be significantly 
different than bridging between two plain old network cards.

elijah