2 Transparent firewall bridges on the same PC

Started by Pitango, June 03, 2021, 01:21:40 PM

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June 03, 2021, 01:21:40 PM Last Edit: June 03, 2021, 01:29:04 PM by Pitango
Hi,

The most common setup is Suricata on WAN and Sensei on LAN or vise versa.
Senses's newly introduced l2 transparent bridge mode cannot be implemented on the same bridge with Suricata.
I thought this setup might solve the issue.

1 PC
4 NIC's

NIC1 - WAN1
NIC2 - LAN1

Transparent Firewall Bridge 1 (WAN1 & LAN1)

NIC3 - WAN2
NIC4 - LAN2

Transparent Firewall Bridge 2 (WAN2 & LAN2)

Physical (Patch cable) External Bridge (LAN1 & WAN2)

Suricata on Transparent Firewall Bridge 1

Sensei on Transparent Firewall bridge 2.

Can OPNsense handle 2 Transparent Firewall Bridges on the same PC?

Very good question indeed! I have a similar one, since I want to try and create two transparent firewall bridges because I have two WANs that I have to firewall and pass through to my TP LInk Omada router. Unfortunately, I do not have an answer yet.