Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 13:50:03 EST From: M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: All-in-one FreeBSD-based gateway ? Message-ID: <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com>
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Hi,
I wonder are there any efforts on FreeBSD to make it a very
strong competitor against commercial routers (eg Cisco) in the
following areas, and preferably all in one single FreeBSD box:
1) Novell connectivity to the Internet, ie route IPX backbone
traffic to TCP/IP world and does NAT with one public IP address.
Preferably working with any types of interface, serial, leased,
ISDN etc.
2) PIX-like VPN encryption on the NAT'ed outbound packets.
3) Other generic firewalling, proxying and NAT features. I know
many individual 3rd party apps already support these, but
I am more interested in a whole suite of router/gateway/firewall
framework that is easily manageable.
Basically I am trying to track if there is any such efforts
addressing such areas all together. If yes, please reply with some
threads/leads/info. Otherwise, have there been talks/mentionings/
discussions/etc on similar topics which address techincal feasibility
etc ?
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