From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 14:12:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.site-fx.net (ajhm54hby52pi.bc.hsia.telus.net [66.183.47.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CA037B41A for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from agent-orange.site-fx.net (gateway.site-fx.net [192.168.1.1]) by joshua.site-fx.net (8.12.1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1DMCKv6011309; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:12:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: router preference: hardware or software? From: "James A. Peltier" To: flash@neworleans.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <91698.1013637711317.JavaMail.www@webmail.neworleans.com> References: <91698.1013637711317.JavaMail.www@webmail.neworleans.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 13 Feb 2002 14:12:28 -0800 Message-Id: <1013638348.2370.44.camel@agent-orange.site-fx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 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