From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 11:23:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc.numbersusa.com (mail.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC8414DF4 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from work.drapple.com (ts001d08.sal-or.concentric.net [207.155.239.20]) by dc.numbersusa.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01525 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:32:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hartley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FW: PPP & security Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've followed the list for a few months (& searched through the mailing list archive) and really couldn't find anything that answered my question, so here I go: I've got a home network (FreeBSD, Win95, Mac: with hubs, cat5, etc.) that currently connecting to the Internet via a FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE machine (using ppp -auto -alias ISP), and everything is working great. I stay connected for 8-10 hours at a time (I work from home). My question is mostly related to the security of my network. I want to know if the FreeBSD machine is providing adequate security for me. I've disabled services I do not use on the machine. I'm going to be putting 3.2 STABLE on the gateway machine next week. Should I worry about setting up IPFW & NATD? (is this even possible with ppp?) Are there other things I should be doing? I realize on a dialup I'm kind of like a moving target, but I stay on long enough that I want to make sure I'm being careful. Thanks in advance. Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message