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Date:      Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To:        "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric <ee123@rocketmail.com>, Don <don@calis.BlackSun.org>
Subject:   Re: Looking for a software
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990107145947.vev@michvhf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990107204129.1745A-100000@ns.double-barrel.be>

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On 07-Jan-99 Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
>                       
> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Don wrote:
> 
>> > I guess you wan't to use a firewall to allow access to certain clients ?
>> > this is done with ipfwadm ... have a Look at http://www.xos.nl/ for more
>> > info. The package is normally for linux but you should be able to compile
>> > under FreeBSD.
>> If this gentleman is looking for firewalling software is there any reason
>> he wouldnt use IPFW which is built right into FreeBSD? IPFW is exactly
>> like ipfwadm except it is our version and it works right.
> Probably so however I did not know the package existed on FreeBsd ...
> could not find a reference... When I used appropos on my box it didn't
> return a result and even the list I generate off the ports didn't return
> anything so I assumed that it was unexistant on FreeBSD. However now I
> come to think about his question it may be that he required only to use
> the .htaccess files to block access to certain URL's...

I thought he was trying to only allow his users to access a list of URL's
on the outside.   eg. they can go to www.freebsd.org but they can't go to
www.playboy.com.

Vince.
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