Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:05:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Louis-Philippe Alain <xenub@boisfrancs.qc.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall: What to change? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311210013.16485M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803112308.SAA05221@mail.boisfrancs.qc.ca>
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Louis-Philippe Alain wrote: > Hi, > It's the first time I make "ASCII-Art" so please be indulgent... :) Will > the trafic on the new "router" slow the machine? If so, maybe I should put > it on the DNS machine as it's not very busy for the moment... You used tabs and they expanded differently but I get the idea. Everything hangs off a hub behind the router. You'll want to stick a computer between the hub and the router and configure it for all of your firewalling/filtering needs. Of course you can recycle an existing computer, just remember to allow packets in/out for whatever service(s) it may be hosting. Kinda like this: 3Com T/S ------+ | _________________ CompuTone T/S -+ | | _________ | | FreeBSD | | | FreeBSD Mail --+---+ Firewall/Filter +----+ Cisco +----[ World ] | |_________________| |_________| FreeBSD Web ---+ | FreeBSD DNS ---+ On the filter, enable IPFW as described in the Handbook, tune /etc/rc.firewall as desired, and you should be set to go. > Thanks a lot for your help! No problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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