From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Feb 17 7:48: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from postal.blacksun.org (postal.blacksun.org [216.254.108.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB91637B402 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from calis.blacksun.org (unknown [216.254.108.150]) by postal.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E7971641; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:00:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: Don To: Alan McKay Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Looking_for_some_binaries,_and_does_this_make_a_good_firewall=3F?= In-Reply-To: <1088.216.187.107.78.1013957134.squirrel@secure.quay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Where can I get these packages from? I really HATE building this stuff > myself and would prefer not to. You do not need to build these yourself. FreeBSD will build them for you using the ports tree. > Also, does FreeBSD make a good firewall? Or should I reinstall the thing > with Linux so I can use ipchains? If FreeBSD does make a good firewall, > what software should I look for? ipf and ipfw are excellent firewalls that are included in the base distribution of FreeBSD. They have a much longer history then ipchains and are, in my opinion, more robust. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message