From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 23:31:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA8715108 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.9.3/ignatz) with ESMTP id XAA04121; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:32:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:32:19 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Chip Wiegand Cc: William Woods , Daniel Brownstone , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DSL natd rules.... In-Reply-To: <388D4558.26F762ED@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG freebsd 3.4 (as much as i remember) has both IPFW and IPFilter as firewalling options. you have to reconfigure the kernel (reference LINT for the various options on both) to use them. identd is pointless, a useless program (this is my opinion, mind you) that should have died years ago. here's why: it can be lied to, or be used to lie from. you're relying on a machine the authenticate itself, and then expecting it to tell the truth. basically, in the modern internet, it's not a wise thing to do.. -- jan On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Chip Wiegand wrote: > I also am interested in this, I am currently running a Mandrake Linux > 6.0 box running ipchains for nat and firewall. I am just learning > FreeBSD, only about 3 weeks old in BSD now, and have seen many a post > regarding BSD being better at this than Linux. I identd is not the way > to go, what is the alternative? And I know IPFW is built into BSD, is > IPFilter also? I am currently on my linux box because I screwed up my > bsd box and that is being dealt with in other posts. Oh, well, the > joys of learning. :-) Chip Wiegand > +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message