Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:14:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambueh-fbquestions@buz.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw FAQs, documentations, tutorials or other stuff? Message-ID: <20000514021433.A77581@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <1815485717.20000513161715@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambueh-fbquestions@buz.ch on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 04:17:15PM %2B0200 References: <1815485717.20000513161715@buz.ch>
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 04:17:15PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm currently messing around with ipfw but I can't reach
> anything useful at the moment. May anyone point me to some nice
> documentations, tutorials, FAQs and such stuff (I've read the ipfw
> manpage and The Complete FreeBSD, thanks Greg, helped me a lot, but
> not here...)?
I have lagged a bit behind from the handbook, and I don't know if some section
on ipfw is included in there by now. However, you can find a couple of useful
pages on ipfw usage at my home page. See the references [1], [2] and [3] for
this.
> Or is there even a console or webbased administration tool
> available?
This, I do not know to answer.
> In the past I found it quite handy to have a automatically generated
> config that is working as base so you can see what you did wrong and
> do it by hand next time...
For this I always found /etc/rc.firewall a really nice starting point. Read
the rules *and* the comments in there. Try to copy those rules that you want
to test in, i.e. `/etc/ipfw.conf' and use in your rc.conf the option:
firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf"
Start with a basically simple firewall, after you read the references below,
and decide on either an `open' or a `closed' type of firewall. Add
rules as you find out that you need them, latter on.
--> Note: the references outside those of my home page can be found at
www.freebsddiary.org, along with lots of other good articles on FreeBSD
usage. Keep this site bookmarked, you'll probably find some use for it
again for some other topic :)
Oh, and if that is not a problem with you, please avoid posting twice the same
message, on the same list.
Ciao,
Giorgos Keramidas.
References
**********
[1] http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/freebsd/ipfw.html
"An open firewall with ipfw"
[2] http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/freebsd/ipfw-closed.html
"A closed firewall for FreeBSD with ipfw(8)"
[3] http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/freebsd/ipfw-groups.html
"Building your own rule-groups with ipfw on FreeBSD"
[4] http://www.freebsddiary.org/firewallconvert.html
"Firewall rules - converting from IP Filter to natd/ipfw"
[5] http://www.freebsddiary.org/firewall.html
"Firewalls / ipfw - protect your subnet"
[6] http://www.freebsddiary.org/firewall2.html
"Firewall rules - some more work"
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