From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 27 11:22:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692E714E7E for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:22:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03956; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:26:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:26:17 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: Jeffery Soule Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalls In-Reply-To: <20000127.18320500@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For general poop on ipfw, look at http://www.freebsddiary.org http://www.freebsdrocks.com http://www.freebsd.org Also, a stock script for a firewall can be found in /etc/rc.firewall. The next entry can help with scripts, but you'll have to translate between ipchains commands on Linux and ipfw on FreeBSD. There is a one2one correspondence between the commands that is fairly obvious, once you get the hang of ipfw. http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com Some people are advocating ipfilter because of some recent denial of service attacks. The following is a HOW-TO for ipfilter. http://www.free-x.ch/pub/ipf-conf-en.html The "official" home page is http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/ *==============================================* *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* *FreeBSD Novice * *All ORBS.org SMTP connections are denied! * *==============================================* On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Jeffery Soule wrote: > Greetings, > I am looking for a starting point to learn about setting up a firewall > on FreeBSD 3.3. Any pointers would be GREATLY appreciated! > Thanks, > /Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message