Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:59:41 -0500 From: Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Firewalls Message-ID: <cf8773e7-7486-f05a-c340-bf745a486241@mgm51.com> In-Reply-To: <5bed7716cd0c9f56e7fe73e86d0cde45.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <5bed7716cd0c9f56e7fe73e86d0cde45.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On 12/7/2016 2:42 PM, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > Well, the setup and loading of Postgresql9.6 seems to have completed > successfully. Now, before this can go live I need to set up the > firewall. I am used to IPTables on CentOS but have no experience with > IPFilter or PF. > > First, which firewall, of the three I read are available (IPFW, > IPFilter and PF is the recommended choice? > > Which of them, if any, have FW for dummies like tools/guides? > > A good place to start, if you haven't been there already: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html One note about pf and Freebsd... the version of pf in FreeBSD uses the older pf.conf syntax of pf, I believe it is equivalent to the version in OpenBSD 4.5. So when you google for things, you have to keep the differing syntax in mind.
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