Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:40:31 GMT From: ovb@ovb.ch (Oliver von Bueren) To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall software Message-ID: <3570b5e6.1286776386@mail.ovb.ch> In-Reply-To: <D1C34C054DEAD111ACF700C0A850A45A58DB@gershwin.careergateway.com> References: <D1C34C054DEAD111ACF700C0A850A45A58DB@gershwin.careergateway.com>
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On Mon, 25 May 1998 18:49:24 +0800, you wrote: >Does anyone have any recommendation for a firewall software to use on >the FreeBSD box? >I have been referred to Gauntlett and Checkpoint Firewall-1. How do >they compare? Or would they be an overkill and instead I should use >simply ipfw that comes with freeBSD? I'd suggest you take a look into fwtk v1.3, this is what is in the port collection, or take the original directly from http://www.tis.com/, last time I checked the current version was at 2.0 something. This is the small brother of Gauntlett, without all the mess with the configuration tools, which you don't need anyway, you know better what you do if you do it yourself. I think it's still free to use. ipfw is IMHO not a firewall but a packet filter which you can use to build kind of a firewall. You need to know if you want a maximum security solution, the I would strongly discourage to use any software that forwards ip packets in favor of a proxy aproach, which is what fwtk is. Cheers, Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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