Transparent firewall & Dynamic rules

Cypher Wu cypher.w at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 07:32:54 UTC 2009


I want to build a transparent firewall based on IPFW. For static rules
this is fine, but for dynamic rules, ipfw uses keepalive packet to
avoid deleting a dynamic rule that both ends are still alive but don't
issue any traffic for a long time. But this means the firewall should
have it's own IPs and is not transparent anymore.


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