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Date:      Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:41:55 -0700
From:      "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net>
To:        "Derrill Guilbert" <derrill@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: First time gateway/router
Message-ID:  <004b01c5aa54$b04ae400$3264a8c0@opteron>
References:  <430F2F54.4010902@gmail.com>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrill Guilbert" <derrill@gmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:03 AM
Subject: First time gateway/router


> Is there a walkthrough or something online to teach me how to make a 
> freebsd box into a gateway/firewall? I've not ever run a FreeBSD box that 
> wasn't already behind some other kind of firewall, and don't want to screw 
> it up.
It's not really a walk through, but you'll get the idea on how to do it. 
Check out the FreeBSD documentation at the below URL. Look at sections 
26.2.3 and 26.2.4.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html

Here's another one, a bit more of a walkthrough. If you don't need IPSEC 
then you can probably skip those steps:
http://www.lugbe.ch/lostfound/contrib/freebsd_router/

Or...
http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ (On the left click on Setting-up a 
Dual-Homed Host.






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