From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 3:16:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552E614F52 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 03:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990413101613.XTRH5752963.mta2-rme@wocker>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:16:13 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Thomas Uhrfelt Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:14:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Firewall solutions Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <01BE85A5.0D230710.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990413101613.XTRH5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Apr 99, at 11:59, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > I am looking into building a small corporate firewall ( very basic ) with > FreeBSD 3.1. I have purchased 'Building Internet FireWalls' ( Chapman & > Zwicky ). What I now need is sort of additional FreeBSD specific > information, preferably step-by-step guides and general information on > what tools are recommended with FreeBSD ( ipfilter, ipfw, TIS ? ). I started with ipfw. It's good, but I found it wasn't quite what I wanted. So I swapped to ipfilter. Which does just about everything I want. It's bundled into 3.1 now. The instructions I have on my website for ipfilter are pre-3.* FreeBSD but are still valid (I think). > PS: I should probably post this in the security list, but this is such a > basic question that I felt it was a bit 'below' their standards. DS. Nope, they'd be into it. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message