Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:29:42 -0400 From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw vs. MS Proxy Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990601142406.03508710@mail.computeralt.com> In-Reply-To: <19990601130713.A3289@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.2.0.56.19990601135626.034fa010@mail.computeralt.com> <4.2.0.56.19990601135626.034fa010@mail.computeralt.com>
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At 02:07 PM 6/1/1999 , you wrote: >ipfw is packet filtering, not proxying. For that you probably want >squid and/or natd. This was my understanding as well. I've actually looked at squid. >Exactly what are the advertised features of MS Proxy, and what are the >features you are looking for? They're looking at it from a security standpoint. Which I agree with totally... I've always wanted a firewall. There never seems to be money available for my FreeBSD projects, but if someone describes the same need using MS "solutions", then everyone gets excited :( The idea is to do just what a firewall does: filter traffic between our private network and the outside world. I'd like to see a FreeBSD box with 2 NICs dropped into place, running ipfw, to perform this task fairly invisibly. They'd like to use MS solutions because "that's what we sell" and they don't like FreeBSD solutions because NOEKI (No One Else Knows It) except for me. Grrr. I'm not totally up on either, but I've got some concerns that MS Proxy is even up for the task that they want to give it. Sure, it can proxy and cache HTTP info and the like, but I don't think it's much of a firewall... am I correct? Hopefully someone can help me out here. ----------------------- Scott I. Remick scott@computeralt.com Network and Information (802)388-7545 ext. 236 Systems Manager FAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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