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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:50:51 -0900
From:      Andy Firman <andy@firman.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD
Message-ID:  <20050129215051.GA28318@akroteq.com>

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First, if one were to deploy FreeBSD 5.3 as a standard
web and email server, would it need a firewall?
I don't see the point because only ports like 25 for 
smtp, 110 for pop, 80 for http, etc... will be listening
and open for connections with or without a firewall.

Second, I would like to replace my Linux gateway running
Shorewall.  Shorewall is a nice package for managing the 
netfilter firewall capabilities of the Linux kernel.
Is there something similar for FreeBSD?



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