From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 09:50:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15385 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corpex.com (kaneda.corpex.com [194.74.216.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA15379 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by corpex.com via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:51:27 +0100 (BST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1996-Aug-19) Message-Id: From: neil@corpex.com (Neil) Subject: Firewalling with IPFW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:51:27 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Is IPFW capable of acting as a firewall for services run on the machine it is installed on, or is it only for machines with two Ethernet cards, that are acting as a gateway? We are interested in running a firewall for a single machine, and would obviously like to minimize the amount of hardware we are using. Cheers, -- Neil Fowler Wright Systems Administrator Corpex Ltd. +44 171 242 4555