From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 21 22:43:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA18160 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 22:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from okjunc.junction.net (root@okjunc.junction.net [199.166.227.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA18155 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 22:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by okjunc.junction.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id VAA03365; Tue, 21 May 1996 21:58:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 22:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: Dave Hartzell cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD built in firewall In-Reply-To: <199605212057.NAA29064@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 May 1996, Dave Hartzell wrote: > Has anyone used the FreeBSD built in firewall? I am looking at using it, > because I does everything (not much) that I need to do. > > How well does it work? Is it slow? IP filtering is pretty fast unless you have LOTS of rules to process. I mostly use the TIS firewalls toolkit from ftp.tis.com on the FreeBSD gateway to my home LAN but that's because I'm using RFC1918 addresses behind the firewall. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com