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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:04:06 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Internet In A Box 
Message-ID:  <1652.808938246@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 1995 08:44:17 EDT." <199508201244.IAA00835@healer.com> 

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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



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