From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 21:30:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6901216A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D1143D46 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:30:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1E55A53; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:30:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id EA16361D; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:29:58 -0400 (EDT) To: "J.T. Davies" References: <000801c45d08$8629e2b0$90e6d2d1@Jay> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:29:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <000801c45d08$8629e2b0$90e6d2d1@Jay> (J. T. Davies's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:07:20 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardbound resources X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:30:31 -0000 "J.T. Davies" writes: > There's a couple of book names floating around as suggested reading for > designing firewalls and understanding the various states of packets (ack, > syn, fin, rst)...but for the life of me, I can't remember the title of a > specific one. :) > > I believe it was an O'Reilly book, and it was generic (not specific for > FreeBSD or other O/S)... > > Can anyone throw some titles out that may jingle a bell in my mind so I can > go buy it? > > Thanks!! > J.T. You're probably thinking of "Building Internet Firewalls". For full details check the comments at /etc/rc.firewall -- Dan Pelleg