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Subject: Re: Firewall in FreeBSD
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:35:51 +0100 (MET)
Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, abel@i-wave.net.hk, hackers@FreeBSD.org
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
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