Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:06:05 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easy Firewall setup Message-ID: <E47DF11F58AD07F5980F970D@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Ve56c_QhFnA5c0xoRPf82eZZ=1w@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTi=Ve56c_QhFnA5c0xoRPf82eZZ=1w@mail.gmail.com>
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--As of April 25, 2011 7:43:33 PM -0500, Antonio Olivares is alleged to have said: > I don't know which one to use, is there a page, howto (build a > firewall or convert an existing one) to use here? All I want is to be > allowed to visit websites but don't allow anyone out there to come in > somehow a template that I can use and try out to see if I can get it > working. Of course the network name might be different, but I can try > to figure things out. If all you want is a firewall, I'd go with this: <http://www.pfsense.org/>; Based on FreeBSD, but they've set it up nice and put an easy-to-use interface on top of it. Of course if you wanted you could always just install the base system, turn on routing, and configure pf/iptables. There's not really a whole lot to either one, really... But if you don't feel like learning their syntax right now, or doing everything via a text editor, I'd really go with pfsense. (Even if you *do* know their syntax, in most cases I'd go with pfsense...) > After figuring this out, my next big job/task is to use FreeBSD to > make up a new router/dhcp server to give/assign ip numbers to machines > from one and give to many. This has been something hard that I have > failed at several times. Maybe with FreeBSD I can be successfull? pfsense has a DHCP server, no problem there. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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