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From: rhughes2@bdm.com (Ralph Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Proxy/Firewall for FreeBSD 2.1?
Date: 9 May 1996 12:55:36 GMT
Organization: BDM Technologies
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In article <4mobg4$pse@ganesh.sdstate.edu>, hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu says...
>
>I am looking for a good, secure Firewall or Proxy for FreeBSD.  This will 
>be used in a real time environment.  socks 4.2beta looks OK, but someone 
>said that TIS Firewall might be better, but that it dosen't compile under 
>FreeBSD 2.X.  
>
>Does anyone else have any suggestions?  Are there any Ports available?
>
>Thanks.
>

While I'm not currently running the software, I did pull down the TIS Firewall
Toolkit and build it on my FreeBSD 2.0 server.  Seemed to compile OK to me.
I did have to dicker around with some #ifdefs but nothing major.
I haven't tried to compile it on FBSD 2.1 yet.

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