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24th April 2010

idosch

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OpenBSD firewall with only one physical NIC

Hello,

I would like to setup a firewall which has only one physical NIC using the 'alias' parameter in 'ifconfig'. Are there any security risks using this configuration in comparison to a configuration with two physical NICs?

Thanks in advance, Ido.

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