From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 7 19:59:50 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CD7C6C6F8 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from oneyou.mcmli.com (oneyou.mcmli.com [IPv6:2607:f2f8:af30::100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oneyou.mcmli.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 222241AE2 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (sentry.24cl.com [IPv6:2001:558:6017:94:4cfb:c574:24a0:7961]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "sentry.24cl.com", Issuer "Mike's Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by oneyou.mcmli.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tYq8Z4ZHWzFtpp for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:59:42 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=mgm51.com; s=mgm51-02; t=1481140782; bh=tFaknEO3AhXmS/4L9/Hjf/lGzoW+kKDiXngK7X62C6E=; h=Subject:To:From:Message-ID:Date; b=jd13EQjLZpXHUAsis4TrdB+SnpfuDjfzLdqFza12tbV/S0/4rlhJDpjFJThwYmY5W O6SXUzPPunPtdGh4ifRnWb4acNPvXYGqXgUsDOslTiKJqNtkOW9CMgSIOJLH/t8mOV AZ91tmQRuJW0bhzVBQ6AoiH85a3QTPZrz83gqXQ5Ehc1TxAynKFzVnferkTRMPL3QR 7vwUwjZ0YQck0X/oDsC36215TF3Z8BmBt9Z2WTN947xe6xpdqcrXEIgZISfmMWP6yK IxiVUK+w1M6TxDih9yvk7/h1yintJLXN4r8to35AMISsRGkxt/IrmYu+h9Q/aVOMc8 MM94aE+iEKRKg== Received: from [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:a0d2:60fc:6009:94c1] (unknown [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:a0d2:60fc:6009:94c1]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3tYq8Y4V64zqTHw for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:59:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Firewalls To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5bed7716cd0c9f56e7fe73e86d0cde45.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> From: Mike Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:59:41 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5bed7716cd0c9f56e7fe73e86d0cde45.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:59:50 -0000 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.