From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 6 10:31:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18568 for security-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18563 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shogun.tdktca.com ([206.26.1.21]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA22257 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:31:33 -0700 Received: from shogun.tdktca.com (daemon@localhost) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id MAA02864 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:24:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from orion.fa.tdktca.com ([163.49.131.130]) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id MAA02859 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:24:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from orion (alex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.fa.tdktca.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA16302; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:29:01 -0500 Message-ID: <31B7155C.18C82B89@fa.tdktca.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 12:29:00 -0500 From: Alex Nash Organization: TDK Factory Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rohit Dube CC: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewalls References: <199606061649.MAA05369@seine.cs.UMD.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rohit Dube wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there are any reliable firewall products for FreeBSD : > free or otherwise. > > I would appreciate any pointers. You can use FreeBSD's native firewall support, see: - ipfw(8) - section 6.4 of the FreeBSD Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook71.html If you are using -stable, keep in mind that a lot of the information contained in the handbook (such as the syntax of ipfw) no longer applies. There's also the TIS Firewall Toolkit: http://www.tis.com Alex