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Re: which firewall product?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brown)
Tue Jul 30 16:19:54 2013

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:19:34 -0400
From: Michael Brown <michael@supermathie.net>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles-lists@knownelement.com>
In-Reply-To: <0a63d3fc-4506-41ce-90f5-e38402f68b8a@email.android.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

In the pfSense UI, you create the physical interface as a GRE tunnel
then assign it to a logical interface against which you can apply the
firewall rules:



The screenshot is a GIF IPv6 he.net tunnel (this is 2.1RC0) but it works
the same way on 2.0.1.

Works great!

M.

On 13-07-30 04:10 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> Not sure how bsd handles ipip connections. If it breaks them out as a dedicated interface (like it does for openvpn connections) , then rules can be applied and pfsense would be quite useful. The UI is very simple. 

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