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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:08:36 +0000 (GMT)
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hi,

check out this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html

"since I don't feel like having to start the firewall everytime the box is
restarted."

good thing we hardly ever have to reboot.  =]

-j

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, FreeBSD wrote:

> Hi all.  I am a newbie (as you can tell) and I am trying to get something
> done for work.  We are a wireless ISP and are trying to set-up a bandwidth
> limiting box.  At first we tried using Emerging Technologies's bandwidth
> managing program but it hasn't been very good for a newbie like me.  So I am
> looking into using IPFW to do the limiting.  Now I am trying to setup the
> box to be a firewall and I want to do it statically.  Now I was wondering if
> there is a tutoral or HOWTO online that can help me with the kernel
> configuration to make it static, since I don't feel like having to start the
> firewall everytime the box is restarted.  Any help would be much appreciated
> and thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Kevin Aug
> -Web Designer
> http://www.datalinkny.com
> http://www.datalinkwireless.com
>
>
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