Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:23:41 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "ScaryG" <scaryg@sputnik.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Firewall on a single homed machine? Message-ID: <008401c11582$5ea52ea0$059b140a@dan> References: <NEBBIBBMOLOKIBAOAKCFOELNCDAA.scaryg@sputnik.org>
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> Anyway... if you have a FreeBSD (4.3R) box with one network card, can
you
> setup a firewall in a similar fashion as a multihomed box?
Sure, you just don't use the natd stuff...
All the rules for ipfw (see /etc/rc.firewall) apply to one interface at
a time. So you could configure your lone interface to allow, say,
incoming web server requests while denying incoming ftp or telnet
requests.
--Dan
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