Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:17:46 -0500 From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.condolan.asn> To: bstephens@regionsmortgage.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD server as a router??? Message-ID: <20010802131746.C1316@lemieux.condolan.asn> In-Reply-To: <86256A9C.0063216C.00@smtp.regionsmortgage.com>; from bstephens@regionsmortgage.com on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:53:53PM -0500 References: <86256A9C.0063216C.00@smtp.regionsmortgage.com>
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On this day Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:53:53PM -0500, the following great wisdom poured forth from the mouth of bstephens@regionsmortgage.com, to the stark amazement of all who witnessed: > > > I have been combing the freebsd.org site for the last two days > attempting to find some documentation on how to configure and use a > FreeBSD server as a router. I have found some information on > configuring the server as a bridge as well as a filtering bridge, but > no router info. Does anyone have any leads on some info? There seems I've noticed that 9 times out of 10 these days, people _say_ they want a router, but what they _really_ want is a firewall. You might want to give that some thought. Would you prefer to hide your internal machines behind a machine acting as a firewall, helping to keep them safer from those who would do them harm? Or do you really want just a plain old router? In either case, the info is out there. A google search for "freebsd firewall" turned up a bunch of stuff--one fo the first links I looked at seemed to be a fairly complete howto that started with installing a bare box and ended with making your firewall do various things. Also, you should get Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD" book. There's a section in there about setting up a router, and maybe even firewalling. Can't quite remember and don't have it handy. There is anoter book called "The FreeBSD Corporate Networking Guide" or something like that. I flipped through it and it seemed rather complete--I'd be surprised if there wasn't a chapter on routing and firewalling in there. Also, when you do the initial freebsd install, it asks you "Is this machine going to be a gateway?". For our purposes, a gateway and a router are the same thing. You also might check out PicoBSD, which is a router-on-a-floppy special distribution of freebsd. No hard disk required. > to be a number of such articles/books for doing a similar feet under > Linux, but I can't seem to find any such documentation for FreeBSD. I > have been wondering about using the filtering bridge scheme. It would > provide the segmentation of traffic that I need but does it provide > routing tables, shortest data path info, etc. as a router would? Any > assistance is appreciated. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | unix | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | perl | (651) 686-9974 / http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | net/sec | Eagan, MN _ / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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