Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 03:53:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_M=2E_Ram=E9?= <martinrame@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD Message-ID: <171215.93434.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <922394.62111.qm@web113506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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________________________________ From: Leonardo M. Ramé <martinrame@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 3:44:36 PM Subject: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD The short answer is a definite yes, but you will need two NIC's in the FreeBSD server. I have a FreeBSD server which runs diskless and it acts as my router right behind the cable modem. All networks in my home including the wireless one uses this machine as it's route to the Internet. It runs IPFW2 as the firewall. It also does some port forwarding from my Asterisk PBX and webserver which are running on other FreeBSD servers inside my LAN. There is excellent information in the FreeBSD handbook on how to setup a FreeBSD server as a gateway/router. Check it out. 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. 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?. Thanks in advance, Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"home | help
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