From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 10:16:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16848 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16840; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:16:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199609121716.KAA16840@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firewalling with IPFW To: neil@corpex.com (Neil) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Neil" at Sep 12, 96 05:51:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Neil wrote: > > Hi, > > Is IPFW capable of acting as a firewall for services run on the machine > it is installed on, or is it only for machines with two Ethernet cards, > that are acting as a gateway? ipfw can protect the machine it is running on as well as any machines behind it. the incoming packets are checked against the rules and either dropped (optional logging) or input processing continues jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB