How do firewalls route?

[Thanatonia]

Done the tutorial, read guide, know how to program a firewall to whitelist/blacklist. Not sure where to place because I don't know how it routes, I can't program the ports like a router (didn't expect to be able to honestly), but don't know if it acts like a switch or something else.

If I have a firewall between 3 routers (port0 = @core, port1 = @ser, port2 = @hub1), will a user from hub1/xyz seeking stream-voice . com (mapped to @servp):

A - Know exactly which port to leave via to get to the router it seeks (go straight through port1).
B - Check each port until it sees the router it wants (check port0, then check port1, then leave via port1)
C - Get stuck at the firewall because it tried going through port0, got to @core, and then got sent back to the firewall, then tried port0 again etc.

Or none of those things.

Really enjoyed going in blind to this game and figuring out the systems myself (figuring out how to work dhcp was particularly rewarding), but just can't wrap my head around this for some reason. Thanks for any help :)

[suppocosia]

Currently in the game, off-the-shelf firewalls do not need route configuration, they function like a switch except with traffic filtering. Though it is possible to roll your own routing firewalls onto any compute hardware with the jailbreaker proposal if you want to have routing on firewalls.

[Thanatonia]

Thanks for the info :)

[meRlinX_AT]

Originally posted by suppocosia:

Currently in the game, off-the-shelf firewalls do not need route configuration, they function like a switch except with traffic filtering. Though it is possible to roll your own routing firewalls onto any compute hardware with the jailbreaker proposal if you want to have routing on firewalls.

pls reconsider this behaviour.
An naked FW's never acts as an switch. i would expect, that the ports act as pairs (in and out in both ways)

AND .. we need FW's with Fiber!

thanks

[SupaNerdo]

Its wirerat that brings the switching behaviour, if you remove it, then the firewall no longer switches. If you want a fibre firewall you could use a Ledge3/4

[meRlinX_AT]

Originally posted by SupaNerdo:

Its wirerat that brings the switching behaviour, if you remove it, then the firewall no longer switches. If you want a fibre firewall you could use a Ledge3/4

thanks for the tip with wirerat.

Have thought about an Ledge 3 - but it wil cost 800W more then the CP4E