From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 11: 5:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF0637B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010207190309.OPVT21891.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:03:09 -0800 Message-ID: <3A819C5E.BA9C692F@home.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:05:02 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J.Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gon=E7alves?= Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Router (Firewall) Security References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "J. Miguel Gonçalves" wrote: > > Hi! > > I am about to install a FreeBSD 4.2 box (DX4 @ 100 MHz, 12 MB RAM, > 210 MB disk) as a cable > router/firewall for a small network. > > I will disable all network services and the maintenance is going > to be done over a serial console. > It is immossible for an external attacker to reach the firewall > machine and execute commands, right? instead of impossible, it is better to say it is not easy ;-) > The only thing he can do is circunvert the firewall and > penetrate the internal network, right? this is a function of the rules in the firewall suerte raymundo > > Sincerely, > > ... > J. Miguel Gonçalves > http://jgoncalves.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message