From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 21:50:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA7816A4CF for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:50:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from debian.akroteq.com (rdbck-static-72.palmer.mtaonline.net [12.17.141.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FA043D1D for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:50:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@firman.us) Received: from andy by debian.akroteq.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cv0UV-0007R8-Gm for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:50:51 -0900 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:50:51 -0900 From: Andy Firman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050129215051.GA28318@akroteq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andy Firman List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:50:58 -0000 First, if one were to deploy FreeBSD 5.3 as a standard web and email server, would it need a firewall? I don't see the point because only ports like 25 for smtp, 110 for pop, 80 for http, etc... will be listening and open for connections with or without a firewall. Second, I would like to replace my Linux gateway running Shorewall. Shorewall is a nice package for managing the netfilter firewall capabilities of the Linux kernel. Is there something similar for FreeBSD?