From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 22 13:13:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4145E37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from servint.elbolson.com (mail.elbolson.com [200.41.245.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C620443E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from claudia@elbolson.com) Received: by mail.elbolson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:21:20 -0300 Message-ID: <8154C426EAB1D511B9960050DAB6D4322DBDEE@mail.elbolson.com> From: Claudia Burman To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: routing and security Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:21:11 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! I want to set up a box just to act as a firewall and router, for dial-in users and for a LAN. I have already done it but I'm very worried about security. Question is, does the computer acting just a an IP forwarder need to have any open ports? Thanks Claudia Burman Argentina To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message