From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 21:09:49 2004 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 8492B16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 21:09:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdjunky.homeunix.org (adsl-217-179-211.owb.bellsouth.net [68.217.179.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B6243D2D for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 21:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from b_cassidy@bellsouth.net) Received: by bsdjunky.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 57E7964D; Tue, 11 May 2004 00:20:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:20:17 -0500 From: Bryan Cassidy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040511052016.GA23553@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9 -p7 X-Mailer: See User-Agent Sender: b_cassidy@bellsouth.net Subject: OpenBSD/ (maybe FreeBSD) Firewall/Router/DNS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bryan Cassidy List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 04:09:49 -0000 Hello. I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE p-7. I am pretty comforta= ble with FreeBSD for the most part and really enjoy using it on a day to da= y basis. This is my thoughts. I have an older NEC PC that I would like to p= ut to some use. First off I don't know if I need any 'extra' hardware. I ha= ve now 1 DSL modem (dhcp - could get static, is it worth getting?), 3 NICs,= and 2 cables to connect the ethernet cards. I have just been reading up on= Firewalls on FreeBSD using ipfw. I would basically like to do the followin= g. I want to install OpenBSD 3.5 or Possibly one of the FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 4= -stable, current or whatever. Which would you all recommend using in this s= ituation? I want to continue to use my nice newer, much faster computer to = do all configurations to the system, updates, installing software, running = apache, configuring firewall, etc. etc. etc. via ssh (good choice?) to the = other/older box. Would really appreciate some insight on this topic. Networ= king/Security is becoming very interesting to my. Thanks. Don't forget, do = I need any 'extra' hardware?