From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 14:56:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2E516A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:56:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freedombi.com (gllug.org [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235BC43D1F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:56:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37085724BA; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from freedombi.com (localhost [192.168.10.108]) by freedombi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE0072319; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from 24.11.146.21 (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles); by freedombi.com with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41993.24.11.146.21.1101826607.squirrel@24.11.146.21> In-Reply-To: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr> References: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Frank Bonnet" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple router ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:56:51 -0000 Frank Bonnet said: > Hi > > I'm planning to build a simple router with FreeBSD the machine will not > support firewalling, it will be a straight router that route between the > two interfaces :-) it will be dedicated to this service. > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such operation > 4.10 or 5.3 ? If your needs are simple, don't use any full-featured FreeBSD release for a firewall. It's too much time to set up, lock down, and you could probably spend days just tweaking firewall rules if you haven't done it before. Instead, check out m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall that's been stripped down and rebuilt for the singular purpose of routing packets. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ There's also IPCop, if you're willing to try a Linux-based solution. http://www.ipcop.org -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com