From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 12:19:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F5037BDF6 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 12:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from coretel-184-244.charm.net (coretel-184-244.charm.net [162.33.184.244]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06724; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:19:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:19:12 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Dutch Collins To: "J. Goodleaf" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice wanted: Books on networking details; security In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, J. Goodleaf wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:30:37 -0700 (PDT) > From: J. Goodleaf > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Advice wanted: Books on networking details; security > > I have only a dim understanding of what ipfw and ipfilter really > do. What's stateful packet filtering? I don't know. How would one even use > bridging, dummynet, and the full capacity of ipdivert? > > If you have suggestions on which books will answer these questions > (obviously I don't expect answers here) I'd love to hear them. > Thanks, > John > > =============================== > John Goodleaf > goodleaf@goodleaf.net > > PGP key: finger goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net > =============================== I am still reading 20 months after picking FreeBSD as my workstation OS. Now I want a real firewall. Good Luck. Here is one book I think everyone needs next to their coffee cup. "TCP/IP Network Administration", 2nd Ed., Craig Hunt, published by O'Reilly, ISBN:1-56592-322-7 While not ipfw, it does cover alot of "stuff" that helps (me) understand everything else. I won't cover what is inside the book, however, www.oreilly.com does. Right now I am reading, http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+3.4-RELEASE Yikes! Is that string long enough. And I need to reread this,"Building a Firewall Using FreeBSD", http://www.hut.fi/~kuparine/papers/firewall/firewall.html I have build a new 3.4 kernel now, good luck. -d -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message