Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:44:16 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: A Challenge Message-ID: <37D87080.4D44E9C4@thehousleys.net>
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I have been presented with a challenge. For a local school we have "won" putting in FreeBSD as firewall between the cable modem and the rest of the school network. Our opponent is last years IT commitee chair, who was booted because he was a jerk and wouldn't do things they was the school wanted. He wanted to spend about $10K on an NT box with some firewall package. Now the details: I have about 5 years experance with FreeBSD. I am running it at home connected to a cable modem. My server is fairly secure from the outside. I periodically read and act upon the builins from CERT, etc. The box is just going to be running NATD and IPFW, maybe DHCLIENT. Mr. NT is been told he can try and break-in, crash what ever this box from the internet side. I am asking for links, pointer to make sure this is configured as secure/solid as possible. I will be installing 3.3-STABLE over this weekend (9/11/1999). I really want to make sure we win. Thanks for all help Jim. -- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D System Supply, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 Pager: pagejim@notepage.com 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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