From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 29 15:59:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA20924 for security-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20918 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id SAA07646 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:58:48 -0401 From: Kristyn Fayette Message-Id: <199604292259.SAA07646@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Subject: FreeBSD & firewalls To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:58:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm getting ready to set up a firewall and I was wondering if anyone can give me some suggestions. Currently, I've got a firewall running on an Indy. It's using the internet firewall toolkit. Now I'm about to replace that machine with a FreeBSD system. Should I keep that toolkit, or should I use the ipfw program that comes with 2.1? I know this is the kind of question everyone hates...is brand X better than brand Y, but I really don't have much reference right now and time is kinda short. -----Kris -- -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=- kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu