Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:16:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: neil@corpex.com (Neil) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewalling with IPFW Message-ID: <199609121716.KAA16840@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <m0v1Ez9-0000ScC@corpex.com> from "Neil" at Sep 12, 96 05:51:27 pm
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Neil wrote: > > 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? ipfw can protect the machine it is running on as well as any machines behind it. the incoming packets are checked against the rules and either dropped (optional logging) or input processing continues jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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