From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 20:50:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20798 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20765 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpautobo.aus.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA215608604; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:50:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com> Received: by hpautobo.aus.hp.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA181078603; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:50:03 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: All-in-one FreeBSD-based gateway ? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 13:50:03 EST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ?