Public IPs for machines behind pfsense

[forpfsensebaby]

Hi:

First accept my apologies if this should be covered elsewhere

I am new to PFsense, and I am going to apply this to my small IDC business, I have several IP blocks /25 and /24, and I have searched a while but haven't really found any thing which indicates how to

"set PFsense and give all machines public IPs directly under it"

by saying "directly" I mean if I own 66.55.99.0/24, and set PFsense as 66.55.99.100, 16 machines under it, their IPs are 66.55.77.101,102…..106.

I don't want to use any port forwarding or 1:1 NAT cuz I will have many VPSes under the physical machines by VMware, VBOX and XEN, it's better to have IPs directly instead of port forwarding to internal IP addresses.

does somebody know/have already done the setting for this? what am I going to do? bridge?

thank you very very much

[cmb]

Depends on how your provider gives you those IPs. Hopefully they route them to you, or can change to doing so, then you have those subnets directly assigned to internal interfaces with just a /29 between you and the provider. You could bridge otherwise but that introduces complications if you want to VPN in, need to add private subnets, etc.