From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 30 19:26:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA25681 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25667 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Received: from kongur (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA26074; Tue, 30 Jul 96 19:26:25 PDT Received: by kongur (SMI-8.6/UCDCS.SECLAB.Solaris2-2.0) id TAA25737; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:27:22 -0700 Message-Id: <199607310227.TAA25737@kongur> Subject: Re: Sysadmin magazine To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD misc chating list) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:27:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199607301921.TAA29355@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 30, 96 01:21:19 pm X-Pgp-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A better alternative might be to write a comparison article for their > upcoming Linux issue; or just to submit FreeBSD-specific articles for > future issues. If they do an issue of security, do an article on > FreeBSD's packet filtering and firewalling. Etc. The do have a security issue. The proposal deadline was July 1st, and article submission deadline is Aug 1st. BUT, if someone could pollish one off in a few days.... maybe, just maybe they would take it??? BTW, there was an article on "Building a Linux Firewall" in the June 1996 issue. The topics were: * Reconfiguring the kernel for firewall capibilities * PPP/SLIP (if nessicary) * IP masquerading support * adding/setting up ipfw * settting firewall rules * name server configuration When I read this article, I really thought that FreeBSD should have been the box of choice. Of course that requires someone that has built a FBSD firewall to write the article... -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)