From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 1: 4:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ycn.com (mail.ycn.com [212.88.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4F737B405 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws01 (212-88-187-192.ADSL.ycn.com [212.88.187.192]) by mail.ycn.com (8.11.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id fBS97oL24047 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:07:53 +0100 From: "Richard Kaestner" To: Subject: newbie's question: which firewall??? Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:14:57 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 First, it's the time (after watching this list for some time) to say thanks to many helping hands here! Lots of good information found there! I am in the process of switching for the office-equipment from Linux and MS to FreeBSD. As a matter of fact, I can see everyday a lot of attempts to pay a 'visit' to my local network (Nimda, Code Red ...) Still I can smile about - but when will be the first success ...? Can anyone give me some ideas, which firewall to use (ipfw, ipfilter)? Current solution is a NetgearBox (NAT, basic IP filtering) and e-smith (a linux based firewall, gateway, webserver, ... 'all-in-one') acting as gateway to internal network. My intention is: - a dedicated box to block between DMZ and internal network. ipfw or ipfilter ?, Should I do again NAT on this box? - Another dedicated box in DMZ for 'public' access (not really public, but why not representing my company on the net...) Apache, VPN, ssh access from outside (?) This should allow _me_ to access my internal network (without too much headake) Thanks in advance! -- ciao - Richard "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" Richard Kästner Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com Austria To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message