Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:09:11 -0500 From: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good Information about ipfw Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040601150643.060b2120@209.152.117.178> In-Reply-To: <1086145154.1725.5.camel@Micronet2.local> References: <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org>
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At 21:59 6/1/2004, Martes G Wigglesworth, wrote: >Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw=20 >firewall rules. I am familiar with the man pages, howerver, a list of=20 >arbitrary functionality, without any clue as to how to actually empliment= =20 >them is of no use to me. >I am in Mozul, Iraq, and I have limited time on the Internet, and far less= =20 >resources than I did before I got activated to come over here.=20 >I would also like to know what the point of most man pages are. 90 percent= =20 >of them just list arbitrary commands, as though you are supposed >to know how to use the program in the first place. There are almost never= =20 >any useful information about implementing the program that the manpage is= =20 >supposed to explain, but does not.=20 > >I have not been able to locate any book on the one firewall, that seems >to be at the heart of any good Freebsd firewall setup.=20 > >Please help this wayward soul. > >Thanks fellow BSDers. > >System: HP Pavilion ze5700 w/ Inetel Celeron 2.8ghz; 256MB ram; 30gig hdd= =20 >OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE Here's some info below. Perhaps once you figure it all out, you could write up a "cheatsheet" to help others. http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dfreebsd-ipfw&r=3D1&w=3D2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dfreebsd-ipfw&w=3D2&r=3D1&s=3Dnewbie&q=3Db http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/09/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://freebsd.hanirc.org/holyboard/holyboard.cgi?db=3Dipfw http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22ipfw_rules%22+Richard+Caley http://www.Google.com/search?q=3Dipfw+firewall+rules http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22ipfw_rules%22 http://www.Google.com/search?q=3Dipfw+firewall+rules+primer http://dva.dyndns.org/faq.html Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
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