Thanks to everyone who responded.
It looks like pfsense will do the job nicely.
Cheers,
Brett.
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From: Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 5 January 2007 10:52 a.m.
To: Brett Davidson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall
Le 05/01/2007 à 10:25:30+1300, Brett Davidson a écrit
Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to
use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a
heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.
Upon reading the handbook I
Atom Powers wrote:
On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brett Davidson wrote:
Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to
use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a
heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel
to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very
simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck
2007/1/5, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Atom Powers wrote:
On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL
Agus wrote:
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the
Kernel
to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very
simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck
just pf does not require touching the kernel, you can load the module,
you just
On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel
to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very
simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck
Does PF and/or ipfilter have ipv6 support? I'm
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the
Kernel
to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its
very
simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck
Does PF and/or ipfilter
Brett Davidson wrote:
Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to
use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a
heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.
Upon reading the handbook I found that I can have my choice of three
I can't speak to the advantages or disadvantages of each of those
options, but from other lists I get the sense the pf is the best option
out there. If you want something quick to setup, pfSense and m0n0wall
are prebuilt firewall packages based on FreeBSD that will do exactly
what you're looking
I have not used iptables or ipfw. But, pf is very easy to use, and has
lots of options. I would give it a try. I can send some sample configs
if you need.
Shane
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Davidson
Sent: Thursday, January
On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brett Davidson wrote:
Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to
use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a
heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.
Upon reading the
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