From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 21:09:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA21075 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA21068; Wed, 15 May 1996 21:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA21592; Wed, 15 May 1996 22:08:25 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 22:08:25 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199605160408.WAA21592@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Jim Dennis Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), nate@sri.MT.net, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking / Routing question In-Reply-To: <199605160328.UAA31534@mistery.mcafee.com> References: <199605160119.KAA01175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199605160328.UAA31534@mistery.mcafee.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > The 'firewall' is our main email gateway box, and will end up doing all > > > of the 'ftp/www/dns/etc' service to the world. > > > > Argh. And I presume you can't use a private network inside the firewall? > > You can. I can, but I don't want to. Our firewall isn't a firewall like the world things about it, but mainly a 'Filter' which lets out all the good packets but doesn't let in any of the 'bad' packets. *grin* We're a pretty small outfit with nothing to hide, (and a *really* slow network connection) but I don't have the time nor desire to restore broken systems and/or format disks if we get broken into. Nate