From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 10:05:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA08302 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:05:55 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA08296 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:05:48 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA01654 ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:04:08 +0100 X-Message: This is a dial-up site. Quick responses to e-mails should not be relied upon. Thanks! To: Coranth Gryphon cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet In A Box In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 1995 08:44:17 EDT." <199508201244.IAA00835@healer.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:04:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1652.808938246@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199508201244.IAA00835@healer.com>, Coranth Gryphon writes: >The one thing that seems to be needed (from what we've found clients want) >is packet filtering in the kernel, which can be provided by something called >"screend". I've got the kernel patches ported to FreeBSD 2.0.5 and am trying >to get the author to let it be part of the BSD distribution as a package. screend is one option. There is, however, a packet filter supplied with FreeBSD. See man ipfw for details. Our ipfw implimentation doesn't do everything I'd like it to, but that's another matter :-) I hope to be patching in some new stuff soon. Gary