Linux Firewalling

[william pink]

I use virtual interfaces for my firewalls I am intrigued on why you
need physical NIC's?

Will

On 11/25/08, Gareth Pullen <gareth.pullen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/25 Gareth Pullen <gareth.pullen at gmail.com>:
>> If you can find somewhere which sells them, there's always things like
>> this:
>> http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/network-adapter/d-link-dfe-570tx/
>> A bit pricey if you can find some (~$100 each from what I've seen).
>>
>> Gareth
>
> Edit:
> The one linked above appears to present 1 NIC to the host OS, rather
> than the 4 ports. There are ones which present all 4 ports as
> individual NIC's to the host OS...
>
> Gareth
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