From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 7 11:58:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27676 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com ([209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27671 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 17106 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Jan 1999 19:59:48 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:59:47 -0500 (EST) X-Face: *0^4Iw) To: "Michael C. Vergallen" Subject: Re: Looking for a software Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric , Don Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Jan-99 Michael C. Vergallen wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Don wrote: > >> > I guess you wan't to use a firewall to allow access to certain clients ? >> > this is done with ipfwadm ... have a Look at http://www.xos.nl/ for more >> > info. The package is normally for linux but you should be able to compile >> > under FreeBSD. >> If this gentleman is looking for firewalling software is there any reason >> he wouldnt use IPFW which is built right into FreeBSD? IPFW is exactly >> like ipfwadm except it is our version and it works right. > Probably so however I did not know the package existed on FreeBsd ... > could not find a reference... When I used appropos on my box it didn't > return a result and even the list I generate off the ports didn't return > anything so I assumed that it was unexistant on FreeBSD. However now I > come to think about his question it may be that he required only to use > the .htaccess files to block access to certain URL's... I thought he was trying to only allow his users to access a list of URL's on the outside. eg. they can go to www.freebsd.org but they can't go to www.playboy.com. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message