Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:15:41 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org> To: questions@freebsd.org, "'midiostri@in.gr'" <midiostri@in.gr> Subject: RE: Security ! Message-ID: <6C5913137AC8D4119A1800902794313E1053BD@ISTECH4>
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If you want to use ipfw, you'll need to recompile the kernel with the ipfw options. Once you do that, you can write your own ipfw rules or use one of the rule sets that are in /etc/rc.firewall. Searching the handbook and faq for 'ipfw' will yield some goodies: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html Good luck, Andrew Gould > ---------- > From: midiostri@in.gr[SMTP:midiostri@in.gr] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:01 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Security ! > > Hi, > > I'm busy securing our LAN and I need to setup a freebsd 4.3 box that will > run as firewall and protect my vulnerable network from the internet chaos. > I also think of running NAT there too. > > There appear to be quite a lot of hackers and intruders in the wild and I > need to keep them out of my lan. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions or links/references to stuff that can help > me on this. > > Also, are there any scripts that can be run periodically on a computer and > check if there are changes made to files ? > > Thanks, > Dimitri > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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