From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 14:36:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-3.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21627 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990112223433.KJCL678125.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:34:33 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Schmitt, Clifton O. PV2" Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:33:50 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: firewalls Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <5EB8AEFC2332D2119CCA00104B24844D129A0E@CAMITBCNT17> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990112223433.KJCL678125.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Jan 99, at 16:24, Schmitt, Clifton O. PV2 wrote: > I am in the army and I am trying to setup a firewall for a 100-user > network that we run in the field. We run a DNS server, WWW server, and > Microsoft Exchange server when we go out. I am wanting to put a FreeBSD > box acting as a firewall in front of these systems to keep unwanted access > to our systems. I would like to have 2 network cards in the BSD box. One > that is directly connected to our LAN segment and one that is connected > directly to our router that connects us to the outside world. Because we > do not control the router we need to implement a firewall. I have read > the chapter in the FreeBSD manual that talks about firewalls but I need > more information on how to set one up like this. Maybe specific > references to this specific type of configuration. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Thank you FreeBSD sounds like a good candidate for the job. Some of the stuff on my website might be useful. Hope it helps. cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message