Pfsense Transparency

[oswazi]

Hello All,

Here is my setup

Alpha 1.3-ALPHA-ALPHA
Pfsense built using snapshot on Tue Jul 22 21:50:49 EDT 2008

WAN–---------Pfsense-------------LAN

I didn't know what the description of this issue would be and where to start searching, so here is what i'm looking into:

1. I would like to just use pfsense as a bandwidth monitoring box.
2. I need to keep the LAN IP's static and Public (no private addressing)
3. Would I even use NAT to complete this (1:1 ?)

I would appreciate any assistance given.

[cwadge]

You could NAT 1:1, or you could use PFSense as a bridge. See here:

http://pfsense.icehosting.com/tutorials/transparent_firewall/transparent_firewall.pdf

The gist is that in a bridge config, both interfaces will exist on the same subnet, but with different IPs. The PFSense will not provide routes, but may need some static routes if you have layer-3 switching immediately upstream or downstream of it.