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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Firewall in FreeBSD
To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:41:17 +1100 (EDT)
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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