Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:35:51 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, abel@i-wave.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firewall in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199603281835.TAA00846@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199603280940.BAA12504@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 28, 96 08:41:17 pm
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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 I am using the TIS Firewall tool kit (FWTK) with good results on a FreeBSD 2.0.5 box that serves as a proxyserver/PPP gateway to the Internet. I think it is at ftp://ftp.tis.com or somesuch Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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