From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 13:09:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA27216A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95D7943D49 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 97296 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2004 20:09:50 -0000 Received: from batv-01-031.dialup.netins.net (HELO xyz.US-Webmasters.com) (216.248.109.32) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 1 Jun 2004 20:09:50 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20040601150643.060b2120@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:09:11 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <1086145154.1725.5.camel@Micronet2.local> References: <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> <20040527190044.7477916A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:48:52 -0700 Subject: Re: Good Information about ipfw X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:09:54 -0000 At 21:59 6/1/2004, Martes G Wigglesworth, wrote: >Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw=20 >firewall rules. I am familiar with the man pages, howerver, a list of=20 >arbitrary functionality, without any clue as to how to actually empliment= =20 >them is of no use to me. >I am in Mozul, Iraq, and I have limited time on the Internet, and far less= =20 >resources than I did before I got activated to come over here.=20 >I would also like to know what the point of most man pages are. 90 percent= =20 >of them just list arbitrary commands, as though you are supposed >to know how to use the program in the first place. There are almost never= =20 >any useful information about implementing the program that the manpage is= =20 >supposed to explain, but does not.=20 > >I have not been able to locate any book on the one firewall, that seems >to be at the heart of any good Freebsd firewall setup.=20 > >Please help this wayward soul. > >Thanks fellow BSDers. > >System: HP Pavilion ze5700 w/ Inetel Celeron 2.8ghz; 256MB ram; 30gig hdd= =20 >OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE Here's some info below. Perhaps once you figure it all out, you could write up a "cheatsheet" to help others. http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dfreebsd-ipfw&r=3D1&w=3D2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dfreebsd-ipfw&w=3D2&r=3D1&s=3Dnewbie&q=3Db http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/09/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://freebsd.hanirc.org/holyboard/holyboard.cgi?db=3Dipfw http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22ipfw_rules%22+Richard+Caley http://www.Google.com/search?q=3Dipfw+firewall+rules http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22ipfw_rules%22 http://www.Google.com/search?q=3Dipfw+firewall+rules+primer http://dva.dyndns.org/faq.html Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/