From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 20:27:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D5837B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bcohen@bpecreative.com) Received: from mojomatic (h00105a1e9467.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.244.127]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f214RjK24808 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:27:45 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Bob Cohen" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: FreeBSD Firewall vs. Black Ice Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:28:48 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is the FreeBSD firewall more secure than using Black Ice. This might seem like an apples and oranges question except I just got a cable modem, which is currently connected to a win2k box. I've been using Black Ice's Network ice as a firewall but am not confident that its working because I received some intrusions yesterday and now some files seem to be disappearing. I already have a copy of FreeBSD installed on one of the computers in my office, which I intended to set up as a firewall/gateway. Being far too busy, I opted for Black Ice as it seemed to provide a quick and easy solution. As a result of those intrusions I'm feeling the need for as robust a barrier between my network and the internet as possible. Will FreeBSD help me accomplish my goal? Bob Cohen bcohen@bpecreative.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message