From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 00:56:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4947016A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx08.covadmail.net [63.65.120.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4EE443D54 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bayp@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (covad.net 15552 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2004 08:56:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sdf.lonestar.org) (th3b4yp@66.167.44.116) by sun-qmail14 with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 08:56:20 -0000 Message-ID: <40177950.2090303@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:56:48 -0500 From: K Claussen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40175392.1000908@spray.se> In-Reply-To: <40175392.1000908@spray.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Newbie firewall question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:56:27 -0000 Nicolas wrote: > I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am > trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything > I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So > my question(s) is: is there a difference between a firewall for a dial > up connection and a Lan connection.? And if so what is the difference, > where can I read about it and is there any good sites to look at? I have > The Complete FreeBSD, the handbook, Absolute FreeBSD...... > I would be very grateful for some help or directions where to look. Hi, Nicolas: I just set up something similar. Not sure what kind of configuration that you're looking for, but here's an article that helped me a lot in setting up my PC. It's an article on setting up a firewall/gateway using PPPoE.. On a side note, setting up PPPoE in FreeBSD was infinately simpler then my old Linux box.. That aside, this as well as the IPFW HOWTO got me all setup and running.. http://www.unixcircle.com/features/freebsd_pppoe.php Good luck! Kurt -- Kurt Claussen SDF Public Access Unix System -- http://sdf.lonestar.org