From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 21 18:28:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23383 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firewall (firewall.telelink.com [207.34.143.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23374 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by firewall (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA21060 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:27:16 -0700 Received: from toronto.telelink.com(207.34.143.103) by firewall via smap (V1.3) id sma021058; Tue May 21 18:26:54 1996 Received: from edmonton.telelink.com by telelink.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23843; Tue, 21 May 96 18:27:27 PDT Date: Tue, 21 May 96 18:27:27 PDT From: dneum@telelink.com (Dean Neumann) Message-Id: <9605220127.AA23843@telelink.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD built in firewall Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 May 1996, Dave Hartzell wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Has anyone used the FreeBSD built in firewall? I am looking at using it, > because I does everything (not much) that I need to do. > > How well does it work? Is it slow? --------------------------------------------------------------------- I use the disbling of IP forwarding and the IP aliasing features of vanilla-plain FreeBSD 2.1.0, along with the TIS FWTK proxies and apache httpd to make a firewall that provides access to the Internet from inside my domain, but no access to the inside from the outside, good access logging, and runs a web server which provides virtual homing as well. This all runs acceptably fast on a 33MHz '486 machine with 8Mb RAM. It is rock solid. No complaints here. Dean Neumann TeleLink Technologies Inc. dneumann@telelink.com