Re: Extra "Grey" interfaces on IpFire

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Klaus,

Thanks for your email.

First of all, I would like to point out that it might be a very bad idea to add too many interfaces to the firewall. It will make it a big single-point of failure and very often a switch can route traffic between networks much more efficiently. Firewalls are always slow.

However, you can just add more interfaces on the console and use them in the firewall by creating a subnet.

What would be your use-case for this?

-Michael

> On 24 Sep 2019, at 15:30, Klaus Gimm <teclis22(a)schatten-welt.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> as a Long time ipcop user i had installed this add on for a Long time and it
> worked great for me: 
> 
> http://www.ban-solms.de/t/IPCop-xtiface.html
> 
> After the Switch to Ipfire as the follow-up Project to ipcop i do miss it
> dearly. 
> 
> 
> Is it possible to implement this functionality into IpFire? I am
> unfortunatley not a developer so i cant adjust the package or redesign it. 
> 
> Is there a ticket somewhere to suggest Features for developement? 
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Klaus