From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 0:54:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E8A37B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 00:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA20528; Thu, 31 May 2001 10:02:39 +0200 Message-ID: <3B15F943.D8B6ECEE@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:56:51 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dante.hjan@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewall References: <30222.991294325@www19.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dante.hjan@gmx.net schrieb: > > Hi, > I' ll explain a situation i have. > I have an old pentium 486 and a new piii. I'd want to set up linux on 486 > and make it work as a firewall to the other computer. I have 24/7 connection > and i am currently receiving freebsd.4.3.iso. Maybe you'd give me some tips > where to start from? > Waiting for answer :), [Hint FreeBSD is not Linux. If you want linux, you have to look elsewhere.] Some introductory articles may be found at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/09/FreeBSD_Basics.html (Dru Lavigne on ipfw) http://defcon1.org/html/Networking_Articles/Cat-5/Cross-Over/server-dhcp/ipf-fbsd.html http://www.free-x.ch/pub/FreeBSD-IPFILTER.html (Marty Schlacter on ipf) If you're serious about firewalling, "Building Internet Firewalls" (O'Reilly) is a must. For hints about setting up FreeBSD, look at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message