Re: [gentoo-user] making my own router

[Bill Roberts]

On 21:42 Thu 06 Oct     , Mark wrote:
>    I'd like to build a gentoo box to act as a single router between a
>    hardware firewall (appliance) and two internal separate network segments.
>    The goal is to allow both internal segments to access the Internet via the
>    same firewall, but not allow them to see eachother.
>
>    Here's my general idea - please tell me if it makes sense so far.

Your outline looks good. Haven't ever used a hardware firewall, though.

My setup is a firewall/router, external port to dsl modem, two internal,
one wired, one wireless. I bridged the two internals into a single subnet.

I used:

    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml

as my guide, then did some googling on bridging for the rest. Works great!

By the way, I used iptables for the firewall, but there is some terrific
documentation for shorewall, which you might find a bit easier.

Bill Roberts