[TriLUG] using a Linux box as a pass-through filter

[Dan Monjar]

Jason Tower wrote:
> 
> you can do this with linux, but you can do it a lot easier with openbsd 
> (google for 'openbsd transparent firewall').  i have this exact setup 
> running on a client's colo rack, the firewall is literally invisible - 
> it has no ip address.  as such, you can't ssh in to manage it, so i run 
> it headless and have to ssh to another box, where i login and use 
> minicom to communicate with it via a serial port.  works great.
> 
> jason

Beautiful... OpenBSD is preferred, I use it for a couple of servers 
already.  Thanks for the lead.

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Dan Monjar