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Filtering traffic between two ports

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:42 pm
by tadpole
Hi all,
I want to connect ether1 to ether5 like a bridge so that everything can go about business as usual but i want to add in some filter rules to drop certain traffic.
The device im using is an RB750 and it works 100% when used as a gateway but i see you cant use in and out matcher interface when bridging. Is there another way? I have a few layer 7 filters to kill streaming and content filters mostly to drop a few specific sites.

Can this even be done?

many thanks

Re: Filtering traffic between two ports

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:03 pm
by jarda
You can switch on firewall on bridge. But expect not so good performance.
Anyway such rules don't seem to be bridge relevant for me.

Re: Filtering traffic between two ports

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:36 pm
by tadpole
Lol yeah i get that from using it ;)
Are there any rules that you might recommend in a bridge situation to filter out web address/content?
I would do it any other way but the setup has an Active directory and some pretty fussy software that doesnt play well with the hotspot.
At the moment i have it setup to be either on or off the issue is certain individuals may need unrestricted access ;/