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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:44:23 +0300
From:      "Peter" <peter@hostmansion.com>
To:        "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firewall for web server
Message-ID:  <00b401c45d37$8e346780$0201a8c0@bgsofx17>
References:  <48864.194.39.131.39.1088403058.squirrel@194.39.131.39> <40E0522C.1010107@mac.com>

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I am budiling a web server.
Since it is ina remote data center wher I do not contrl the router I prefer
I to build firewall on the www server.

APF http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
very popular firewall in the linux world.

Thanks,

Peter


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chuck Swiger
To: Peter Zyumbilev
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: firewall for web server


Peter Zyumbilev wrote:
> Do you know some good tutorial for bulding firewall for FreeBSD as web
> server. I found a lot of tutorials but for FreeBSD as router.

First, are you building a firewall or a web server?

If you're building a firewall, you don't want to run any services like WWW
at
all on the machine.  If you're building a web server, you're probably not
going to be routing traffic, no-- to corresponds to your second remark.

> Some commented premade script with comments will also do the job.
> I was plannding to use APF, but I am afarid to install it on FreeBSD
> without good tutorial.

APF?

-- 
-Chuck



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