From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 18:26:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7639537B412 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.236.119] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A4F58A7021A; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:25:09 -0500 Message-ID: <018b01c201f8$c755c780$93ec910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Patrick Almeter" Cc: References: <20020523005445.61560.qmail@web21205.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Where? and Which? Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:25:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Almeter" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:54 PM Subject: Where? and Which? > Where on your site can I go to download the free > firewall? I can't find it. Or is the firewall included > when you download freeBSD altogether (by clicking > download freeBSD....) If what I said in the last > sentence is true, which version ( vesion meaning like > e.g- 5.0, 4.6, 6.7 etc.) of FreeBSD has the best > firewall. I have Windows98 if that helps. > > Thanks, > Pat I'll say this once, remember it for later: the Handbook is your friend. No firewall in FBSD runs on Windows [ze]?. FreeBSD is a community-developed and -supported OS that is flexible, robust, efficient, and extremely stable. FBSD has two good "firewall" programs: ipf and ipfw. Each has its strengths. However, if you want the FBSD firewall, you need the OS. Start with 4.5-RELEASE; then, when you're ready, cvsup to the -STABLE branch. Read all about it here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ And then, repeat after me: "The handbook is my friend...." "The handbook is my friend...." "The handbook is my friend...." "The handbook is my friend...." & c., & c., Lots of FBSDers have run Windoze at one time or another. A few of them may have actually liked it. :-) I have included some (insert your adjective here) instructions below that you might (or might *NOT*) wish to follow ;-) Good luck learning about the OS (which really means "Open Source")!! Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. Here's a possible solution to your problem: download mfsroot.flp, fdimage.exe & kern.flp from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/Releases/4.5-RELEASE/floppies/ use fdimage.exe to burn the floppies Click Start | Run | type 'dosprmpt' type "format c:" Wait a few minutes... reboot with the kern.flp floppy and follow the included instructions ;-p BTW, if you don't actually know what that will do, I wouldn't do it.......................... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message