Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com> To: "Frank Bonnet" <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple router ? Message-ID: <41993.24.11.146.21.1101826607.squirrel@24.11.146.21> In-Reply-To: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr> References: <41AB3354.4010302@esiee.fr>
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Frank Bonnet said: > Hi > > I'm planning to build a simple router with FreeBSD the machine will not > support firewalling, it will be a straight router that route between the > two interfaces :-) it will be dedicated to this service. > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such operation > 4.10 or 5.3 ? If your needs are simple, don't use any full-featured FreeBSD release for a firewall. It's too much time to set up, lock down, and you could probably spend days just tweaking firewall rules if you haven't done it before. Instead, check out m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall that's been stripped down and rebuilt for the singular purpose of routing packets. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ There's also IPCop, if you're willing to try a Linux-based solution. http://www.ipcop.org -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
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