From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 25 07:59:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA06027 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 07:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA06022 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 07:59:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA24434; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:02:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970125105930.00aedcc0@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:59:32 -0500 To: Michael Dillon From: dennis Subject: Re: Router and httpd? Cc: isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:18 AM 1/25/97 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > >> Ok.. what is the difference between 'routed' and 'gated' ? > >routed is a pile of garbage and gated is a routing daemon. > >> And, can I use the same box to work as a firewall? > >A router forwards packets. A firewall doesn't forward packets. >If you think a router with filters installed is a firewall then >it will work fine. But I think a firewall should be FreeBSD with packet >forwarding disabled and TIS firewalls toolkit or Juniper >http://www.obtuse.com installed on it. Squid too for WWW proxy. I think the term "firewall" has come to mean way too many things, and what Michael is talking about is different from what the average Joe is happy with. For simple firewalling, the features in FreeBSD are fine... if you're setting up a serious, multi-domain firewall with complex rules, then you may want to try something different. Dennis