On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote: > --As of April 25, 2011 7:43:33 PM -0500, Antonio Olivares is alleged to have > said: > >> I don't know which one to use, is there a page, howto (build a >> firewall or convert an existing one) to use here? All I want is to be >> allowed to visit websites but don't allow anyone out there to come in >> somehow a template that I can use and try out to see if I can get it >> working. Of course the network name might be different, but I can try >> to figure things out. > > If all you want is a firewall, I'd go with this: > <http://www.pfsense.org/> > > Based on FreeBSD, but they've set it up nice and put an easy-to-use > interface on top of it. > > Of course if you wanted you could always just install the base system, turn > on routing, and configure pf/iptables. There's not really a whole lot to > either one, really... But if you don't feel like learning their syntax > right now, or doing everything via a text editor, I'd really go with > pfsense. (Even if you *do* know their syntax, in most cases I'd go with > pfsense...) > >> After figuring this out, my next big job/task is to use FreeBSD to >> make up a new router/dhcp server to give/assign ip numbers to machines >> from one and give to many. This has been something hard that I have >> failed at several times. Maybe with FreeBSD I can be successfull? > > pfsense has a DHCP server, no problem there. > > Daniel T. Staal > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for sharing this. I have a base FreeBSD 8.2 system on one machine and I would like to setup a firewall that allows me to visit websites and not allow incoming traffic. Something easy to set up and start like /etc/local/rc.d/rc.pf start or similar. A nice example which I can change somethings like name of network device, i.e, nv0, or similar device. I will try further reading and try to set something up as I am afraid to screw things up. Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"