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Why not use Brickhouse?
Authored by: TicToc on Dec 09, '02 01:11:48AM

Unless I misunderstand your requirements, I think Brickhouse would do the job you require. It does support two NICs. I have OSX 10.1.5 running on an old 7300 w G3/300 upgrade card, with the internal Ethernet port connected to a cable modem, and a PCI Ethernet card connected to my LAN.

Brickhouse handles the Firewall/NAT duties just fine, and I use dhcpd (from Fink) as my dhcp server. Having said that, Brickhouse seems to have a bug or two in its ability to load current settings for firewall & routing - I generally have to start fom scratch if I want to change anything, rather than just open Bh and make the necessary changes. Your method is likely more robust.

I don't have OSX Server, so it may be that Brickhouse behaves differently in that environment. In my case, I just used the "Airport" tab as my PCI Ethernet NIC.

Hope this helps.
John Cunningham



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Why not use Brickhouse?
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 09, '02 04:25:29PM

I tried to use BrickHouse but could not get it to work. I use it to configure ipfw on my own computer and like it a lot. After your report I must start testing it again.

Building the script has at least made me understanding ipfw a lot better. I like understanding the things that are protecting me :-). I would love some comments on the ipfw rules so I can improve them further.



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Why not use Brickhouse?
Authored by: bluehz on Dec 09, '02 07:49:36PM

I tried to use BrickHouse for over a year - with minimal success. I love the down and dirty approach of BrickHouse - but it was just too unreliable. Sometimes it would work for a month - then something would happen and it would just go south. Never would display logs either. Attempts to contact the author never yielded any solutions. Its unfortunate - I had high hopes for BrickHouse.



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