Date: 13 Feb 2002 14:12:28 -0800 From: "James A. Peltier" <james@site-fx.net> To: flash@neworleans.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: router preference: hardware or software? Message-ID: <1013638348.2370.44.camel@agent-orange.site-fx.net> In-Reply-To: <91698.1013637711317.JavaMail.www@webmail.neworleans.com> References: <91698.1013637711317.JavaMail.www@webmail.neworleans.com>
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hardware is generally better. FreeBSD however, does make a very nice personal or small - medium size network firewall. Keep services such as www, mail, etc off the firewall. If your going to do firewalling keep it doing just firewalling/NAT. It all depends what your planning on accomplishing. On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:01, flash@neworleans.com wrote: > What is the prevailing wisdom for the gateway between private LAN and the net: > > a separate hardware box (firewall/gateway/NAT) or the FreeBSD box running > ipfw/natd/qmail/BIND/whatever? > > security? reliability? convenience? > > Thanks for your comments, > Flash > > ____________________________________________________ > This Message is sent via webmail.neworleans.com with UXMail. Please visit http://webmail.neworleans.com to sign up. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- -James Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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