From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 20 22:42:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D79237B401; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from isber.ucsb.edu (research.isber.ucsb.edu [128.111.147.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCBA43EEA; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randall@isber.ucsb.edu) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=research.isber.ucsb.edu) by isber.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18PdKp-0008n7-00; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:07 -0800 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:06 -0800 (PST) From: randall ehren To: Cc: Subject: redundant firewall + vpn server howto Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan *18PdKp-0008n7-00*EZvTbkcr6.A* (ISBER - Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it's a bit of a work-in-progress, but if anyone is interested in setting up freebsd as a bridging ipfilter firewall + pptp vpn server, in rc.diskless2 mode, along with the option of having a redundant failover machine: http://isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/firewall/redundant/ despite the complexity at first sight, it's fairly easy to setup thanks to freebsd's including of ipfilter and ppp in the base system, along with a very easy way to setup using a solid state device as the main drive. and all the other utilities you need are in the ports tree. -- :// randall s. ehren :// voice 805.893.5632 :// systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu :// institute for social, behavioral, and economic research To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message