Re: [m0n0wall] Bridging with 2 NICs possible in m0n0wall pb24?

From:	bmah at freebsd dot org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:	"Federico Krum" <federico at thehost dot com dot ar>
Cc:	"Bart Smit" <bit at pipe dot nl>, EXT dash Mike dot Bradshaw at nokia dot com, m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] Bridging with 2 NICs possible in m0n0wall pb24?
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 07:51:35 -0800

If memory serves me right, "Federico Krum" wrote:
> Is it possible to implement a way in monowall to bridge without inserting a
> NIC to take up the role of LAN ?

The way the code is written right now, LAN and WAN have to be numbered
interfaces, which means that they can't be bridged to each other.  This 
is why bridging requires three network interfaces.

Changing this would require a non-trivial amount of work.

Bruce.