Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Walton <walton@nordicdms.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305231932.24994x-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980306001426243.AAA137@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Dave Walton wrote: > I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE and have been planning to set up a firewall > using ipfw and rc.firewall. I just stumbled across IP Filter > (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/), which claims to be included in > FreeBSD-current (post 2.2). Would I be better off installing and > using that package, or should I stick with ipfw? What's the > difference between the two? IPFilter has a more flexible description language and has some other fun features (particularly natd which is now integrated). > Secondly, regardless of which package I use, what are the minimum > requirements for a box that will be filtering traffic on a T1? I'd > hate to be creating a bottleneck... Pentiums with Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Ethernet cards would be a good start. (or Pro/100+) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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