From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 5:37:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A26E37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr2.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.UU.NET [153.39.88.140]) id QQmeag29601; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:37:28 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmeag11081; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:37:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1RDbNL03479; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:37:23 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:37:23 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: Geert Houben Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPTABLES vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3C7CC169.FCD759AA@hict.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Geert, The site http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/ has thouroughly detailed articles on two of the most popular FreeBSD based firewalls. From those articles you should be able to determine how to best construct a FreeBSD firewall to suit your environment. Good Luck, --gill On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Geert Houben wrote: > Hi, > > Last weeks I'm reading a lot of good things about IPTABLES in de Linux > 2.4 kernel. > Because I have to build a firewall I'm curious about the possibilities > from FreeBSD. Normally I prefer FreeBSD above Linux, but does FreeBSD > has such good firewall options too? > > Best regards, > Geert Houben > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message