Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 18:23:36 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_M=2E_Ram=E9?= <martinrame@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home firewall with DLink router and FreeBSD Message-ID: <815771.25520.qm@web113506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC345D2.4050806@radel.com>
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--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> wrote: > From: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> > Subject: Re: Home firewall with DLink router and FreeBSD > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:50 PM > > On 5/5/11 8:37 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > > > Hi, at home I have a DLink Dir 300 router to provide > internet access for my home network. The network is composed > by two Windows PCs, one Linux laptop and one FreeBSD server > we use mainly for storage and as web/database server. > > > > I must add, the server only have one network card. > > It becomes difficult to use a server as a firewall unless > you have an "inside" and an "outside" network. Easiest > is to simply add another network card, should that be > possible on your server. Another possibility is to use > VLAN taggging and connect the server to a switch that > understands VLANs. > > > > > I would like to know if its possible to use the > FreeBSD server as a Firewall for the whole network, securing > LAN and WiFi connections. If this can be done, then how? > could you point me to some howto?. > > > > Yes. I'd start on the FreeBSD website and start > reading things that look useful. If you're thinking > about using pf as your firewall, which I'd personally > recommend though other options are perfectly workable also, > there's a nice document on the OpenBSD web site, IIRC. > Thanks, I think I better add a 2nd network card, as Daniel suggested. Then I'll try this again. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.comhome | help
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