Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:46:37 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gareth Campbell <gcampbell@orcon.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet firewall Message-ID: <20050819214637.GA10088@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43064B2F.7050605@orcon.net.nz> References: <43064B2F.7050605@orcon.net.nz>
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On 2005-08-20 09:12, Gareth Campbell <gcampbell@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox > wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with > transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set > up any firewall. Should I be setting one up? Yes, definitely. It takes about 4-5 seconds when I connect with my dialup account from home and then incoming connections start coming from spyware, trojans and misc. other scanners :-) > If so, do I use one of the bundled firewalls or can someone recommend > one that would suit my purposes? This is a stand-alone box, not on a > home network. The Handbook has a relatively nice chapter on firewalls. At my home workstation (that uses a dialup connection to the world) and on my laptop (that spends a lot of time connected in a corporate network), I use the PF firewall with exactly the same configuration on both machines: - Allow all outgoing connections - Allow *some* incoming connections - Block everything else The ``/etc/pf.conf'' file can be found at: http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/files/pf.conf This and the Handbook chapter about PF will give a good head start :) - Giorgos
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