Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:20:17 -0500 From: Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OpenBSD/ (maybe FreeBSD) Firewall/Router/DNS Message-ID: <20040511052016.GA23553@bellsouth.net>
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Hello. I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE p-7. I am pretty comforta= ble with FreeBSD for the most part and really enjoy using it on a day to da= y basis. This is my thoughts. I have an older NEC PC that I would like to p= ut to some use. First off I don't know if I need any 'extra' hardware. I ha= ve now 1 DSL modem (dhcp - could get static, is it worth getting?), 3 NICs,= and 2 cables to connect the ethernet cards. I have just been reading up on= Firewalls on FreeBSD using ipfw. I would basically like to do the followin= g. I want to install OpenBSD 3.5 or Possibly one of the FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 4= -stable, current or whatever. Which would you all recommend using in this s= ituation? I want to continue to use my nice newer, much faster computer to = do all configurations to the system, updates, installing software, running = apache, configuring firewall, etc. etc. etc. via ssh (good choice?) to the = other/older box. Would really appreciate some insight on this topic. Networ= king/Security is becoming very interesting to my. Thanks. Don't forget, do = I need any 'extra' hardware?
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