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 From:  Fred Wright <fw at well dot com>
 To:  m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
 Subject:  Re: [m0n0wall] VLAN questions
 Date:  Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:39:52 -0700 (PDT) 
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Dave Warren wrote:

> Do I still need seperate WAN and LAN  NICs, or can they be VLANs on the 
> same NIC? -- The goal is simply to free up a few ports on my switch 
> (Which has both 802.1q and port-based VLAN support).

I believe that's possible, but it defeats the purpose of the firewall to
connect LAN and WAN to the same physical interface.

					Fred Wright