Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:41:17 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Cc: abel@i-wave.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firewall in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199603280940.BAA12504@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199603280658.AAA08961@main.gbdata.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Mar 28, 96 00:58:23 am
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In some mail from Gary Clark II, sie said: > > Hello, > > > Abel Law wrote: > > > > May I know if there is any Firewall products for FreeBSD? > > > Here are a couple of points: > > 1. FreeBSD comes with a built in packet level firewall system (ipfw). > 2. This system can be a pain to configure. > > Ok, with that out of the way I can toot my own horn now. > My company sells a package called KeepOut that sits on top of the FreeBSD > IPFW (IP FireWall) system. Written in Perl, KeepOut allows you to write > simple rules which it translates into IPFW commands. IPFW (with or without > KeepOut) combined with something like TIS's firewall toolkit allows you > to setup a fairly secure firewall system. To checkout an alternative to the above: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/flc.html
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