> Errrr.. > The only real benefits you get from a firewall are: > 1) controlling which IP addresses can access a service > 2) *maybe* bandwidth shaping. *maybe*. > 3) packet re-writing.
That's all ? I thought the firewall was THE thing to have when you have a server which is running 24 jours a day, 365 days per year! I'm considering myself as a newbie under FreeBSD for the moment so I may be wrong about the next point but what you telling me is that I can restrict access to certain services to certains IPs ? So I would use the config file of each service to say this one can access, let's samba .. this one cant (interfaces=... in smb.conf if I remember correctly). They are Linux (ouch :D) distributions that are only firewall and don't run any other services (like smoothwall if I'm right). So a distribution like this one is superfluous for users like me ? I own swissgeeks.com and need a little bit of security. Got a lot of stuff running on this server and if I'm switching to FreeBSD I have to be sure I won't get hacked, though it's always possible. Let's say I'd like the same security as SME provides me for the moment. As known, 1 year and a half and no problem! This was the story :D Cya To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
