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RE: Suggestions Needed
From: "DeNoyer, Rick" <rdenoyer () Salinas gannett com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:47:21 -0800
I was in your shoes. Install FreeBSD and configure it for NAT and IPFW. There are How-to's out there on configuring the kernel and such. It's free and seems to work pretty good. A friend of mine showed me that it's easiest to let IPFW run its natural course and then clear those rules and run your own with a simple script in rc.local. I'm sure there will be more elaborate suggestions than this. Good Luck. -Rick DeNoyer -----Original Message----- From: Justyn [mailto:dragon () dlance com] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:55 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Suggestions Needed I'm a home user rather new to firewalls. I have a spare pc I want to use as a firewall machine for our local lan of 2 workstations w/cable modem. I'm wanting a linux/unix flavor os for the firewall system. Would I be better off using a stripped down os that is tailored for firewall machines or something like redhat/freebsd? Would would anyone suggestion as a starting place to learn. Thanks!
Current thread:
- RE: Suggestions Needed, (continued)
- RE: Suggestions Needed Mike Powell (Feb 25)
- Re: Suggestions Needed Chris Travers (Feb 26)
- Re: Suggestions Needed theog (Feb 26)
- RE: Suggestions Needed chris (Feb 26)
- RE: Suggestions Needed Craig Searle (Feb 26)
- Re: Suggestions Needed Leo Security (Feb 26)
- Re: Suggestions Needed Justyn (Feb 27)
- RE: Suggestions Needed Brent Gardner (Feb 26)
- RE: Suggestions Needed Adam Shephard (Feb 25)
- Re: Suggestions Needed Justin_Andrusk (Feb 25)
- RE: Suggestions Needed DeNoyer, Rick (Feb 25)
- RE: Suggestions Needed Mike Powell (Feb 26)