From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 21 10:47:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA28086 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA28079 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02109; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:47:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: AlexF@nsiweb.com cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Help on to to how to create an IP firewall with freebsd In-Reply-To: <01BCDD83.F58F6140@user19.nsiweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 AlexF@nsiweb.com wrote: > I'm a newbie to FreeBSD so I'd like to get help with some issues: > > - First, I want to setup my machine as an IP router, but have no clue as to > how to proceed with this in FreeBSD. 1. Plug in one Ethernet card for each desired interface. Configure appropritately. 2. Set up routing appropriately. If this is going to the outside world, running gated may be handy. Gated is in the ports tree. See FAQ question 10.2 for more info. > - Also, My company wants to put up a firewall using a unix machine. I > think, FreeBSD would be perfect for this task, but I have not been able to > find any information about how to do this. See Handbook section 6.4, "Firewalls." You can find all these docs under http://www.freebsd.org/docs/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major