General Questions

Hello!

I want to use a PC installed with Monowall as a traffic analyzer. So I got a PC with two network cards and installed Monowall.

But how can I configure Monowall that it behaves like a switch or a router within a LAN:

PC1 >> Monowall-PC >> PC2

Right now I can ping the Monowall but nothing behind it. I already created two firewall rules "allow any traffic LAN > WAN" and "allow any traffic WAN > LAN" but it doesn´t seem to be enough. What is missing?

Thanks for any help!

regards, Gwaihir

You could put the PCs on separate networks and see on the Firewall logs some data, however m0n0 is not a detailed traffic analyzer.
What i mean is:


           WAN
           m0n0
    OPT1      OPT2
    |               |
   PC1          PC2

OPT1 - 10.0.0.0/24
OPT2 - 10.0.1.0/24

This is Layer3 and not what You you're actually thinking about.

I believe that there could be another solution with bridged interfaces.

OPT1 - 10.0.0.0/24
OPT2 bridge with OPT1

All of these scenarios include at least 3 network interfaces.