From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 1:14:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seed.pacific.net.sg (seed.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A584C37B403 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg) Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by seed.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f638EPY04383; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:14:25 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pacific.net.sg ([203.208.143.50]) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id QAA27355; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:14:24 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3B418031.152749A4@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 16:20:01 +0800 From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: zh-TW,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Firewall References: <3B4142C5.1EC1CCE2@pacific.net.sg> <20010702221737.E312@blossom.cjclark.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Ling Ling and Crist . I've sucessfully bring up my FBSD machine as a firewall . It works now !! Anyway a lot thanks for your advise . "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:57:57AM +0800, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote: > > Hi ; > > (Q1) I would like to use FBSD to act as firewall . It is adviseable > > ? > > Yes. FreeBSD using either ipfw(8) or ipf(8) makes a very economical, > powerful, and (potentially) secure firewall device. > > > (Q2) I want configure multi-homing , can I insert three ethernet > > card in FBSD machine ? > > Not a problem. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message