Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:33:50 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Schmitt, Clifton O. PV2" <schmittc@emh2.campbell.army.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewalls Message-ID: <19990112223433.KJCL678125.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <5EB8AEFC2332D2119CCA00104B24844D129A0E@CAMITBCNT17>
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On 12 Jan 99, at 16:24, Schmitt, Clifton O. PV2 wrote: > I am in the army and I am trying to setup a firewall for a 100-user > network that we run in the field. We run a DNS server, WWW server, and > Microsoft Exchange server when we go out. I am wanting to put a FreeBSD > box acting as a firewall in front of these systems to keep unwanted access > to our systems. I would like to have 2 network cards in the BSD box. One > that is directly connected to our LAN segment and one that is connected > directly to our router that connects us to the outside world. Because we > do not control the router we need to implement a firewall. I have read > the chapter in the FreeBSD manual that talks about firewalls but I need > more information on how to set one up like this. Maybe specific > references to this specific type of configuration. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Thank you FreeBSD sounds like a good candidate for the job. Some of the stuff on my website might be useful. Hope it helps. cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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