[plug] Firewall question

[Gavan Blunt]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the aliasing just looks like multiple IP
addresses on a single interface.  What I'm after is multiple external
interfaces, each connecting to a different adsl connection (by different
providers).


Shannon Carver wrote:

>It Definitly Does, but its not called a second red interface if I remember
>correctly...  You create an alias on your red interface for the second, and
>then setup firewall rules accordingly... That's how I had it set up here for
>a while.
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>However, Just a raw debian box for firewalling now, for me..
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>>>I'm a longtime Smoothwall user for my firewalls, but soon I'm going to
>>>need to add a 2nd red interface to one of the firewalls, which doesn't
>>>appear possible with smoothwall.  Does anyone know of a linux distro,
>>>something like smoothwall, that would allow adding a 2nd red  interface?
>>>(ie, a 2nd network connection, not just multiple IP addresses on a
>>>single red interface).
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>>IPcop
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>>http://www.ipcop.org
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