Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:32:19 -0800 From: "Thomas Foster" <tbonius@comcast.net> To: "Andy Firman" <andy@firman.us>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD Message-ID: <00bf01c50652$65289310$c900a8c0@ostros> References: <20050129215051.GA28318@akroteq.com>
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For FreeBSD.. I highly recommend PF http://www.section6.net/help/pf.php Hope this helps T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Firman" <andy@firman.us> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD > > 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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