From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 30 17:51:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27347 for security-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (arnie.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.242.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27335 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from state.systems.sa.gov.au by arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V4.3-7 #13538) id <01I46RTV0DTS007K44@arnie.systems.sa.gov.au>; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:14:18 +1030 Received: from dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au) by state.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V5.0-4 #13538) id <01I46RTIKH7K0072D8@state.systems.sa.gov.au>; Wed, 01 May 1996 10:14:00 +0930 Received: from jolt.systems.sa.gov.au (jolt.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.237.8]) by dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA14203; Wed, 01 May 1996 10:17:04 +0930 Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 10:16:55 +0930 From: Garth Kidd Subject: Re: FreeBSD & firewalls In-reply-to: Paul Danckaert <"Re: FreeBSD & firewalls"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (Apr 30, 10:02) To: Paul Danckaert , Mark Newton Cc: Kristyn Fayette , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <960501101804.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0 (4.0.0 Aug 21 1995) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Apr 30, 10:02, Paul Danckaert wrote: > Also, I'm just curious and haven't looked too much into it, but has > anybody used BSD to firewall people within a site? For example, we are > looking at putting dorms on ethernet, but we are going to block various > protocols, ports, etc.. Great idea. Those dorms are a real security threat, and I completely understand wanting to firewall yourself off from them :). [I'm at least a measure serious, actually; what are you trying to protect?] -- garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Network Services Branch +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | EDS | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA