Not sure if multiwan support is what I need

[Guest]

[robertdx]

Hi guys, I've got a pretty strange question that I don't exactly know how to phrase. At work we recently moved into a new office where we have been assigned a class C network block (255 public ip address hosts) and I need to secure the machines we're moving in behind a firewall. Most firewalls from what I understand secure private networks behind one or two public addresses, but instead we'd like to use all of our public addresses. What'd we like to do is block and allow traffic depending on various criteria.

We have a gateway address setup for access beyond our subnet, so I tried to use EFW and put the red network in gateway mode pointing to that address, but I've still got some problems. When doing this I can get hosts to pull a DHCP address from EFW, and those hosts can then ping the firewall, but they cannot seem to get a ping response from the gateway address or beyond on the internet. I'm pretty new to all of this, am I missing something? I'd imagine I have to add some type of routing rule but I do not exactly know how or where to enter it in EFW.

Thanks for any help in advance!

[robertdx]

Actually, now that I've been reading more, what I think I might need is a transparent bridge between the two network segments. I would place my firewalled machines behind the EFW, and they would communicate with the internet using the existing gateway address provided to me by my ISP. Now to find out if EFW supports transparent bridging.