From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 20:43:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wi.rr.com (fe2.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1079237B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deaven@execpc.com) Received: from tabby.charles ([65.29.138.65]) by mail2.wi.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:43:50 -0500 Received: from tabby (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tabby.charles (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f713nX002238; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:49:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from deaven@tabby.charles) Message-Id: <200108010349.f713nX002238@tabby.charles> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD as Router and Firewall In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:05:22 +0200." <5.1.0.14.0.20010731160336.027ab910@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:49:33 -0500 From: David Deaven 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 I can vouch for the fact that even an old dx66 486 works well in this application. I found my "router" lying by the side of the road, abandoned as trash. FreeBSD installed easily and I was up and running in a few hours -- works great. Take a look at the FreeBSD handbook, networking section. It describes how to configure your firewall. Very easy. Dave > >>I've got an old 166 at home and I'm would like to make it into a >>Firewall/router. > >good idea > >> I've got two Nics on it. One would go to my LAN (3 other PC's) >> w/static IP's and the other goes to a DHCP cable modem. Is this >> something that is possible > >yep > >> or would I be better off getting a Linksys or Netger Firewall/Router? > >depends on your fortitude. :))) > >> I'd like to be able to browse the internet, etc from my other computers >> instead of just one! Any good tutorials right off hand? I've one ran >> across a few. > >ipfilter will do all you listed and more. Join the ipfilter list. > >Len > > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------- David Deaven deaven@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~deaven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message