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From: ds3721@strydr.com (David Schnardthorst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Proxy/Firewall for FreeBSD 2.1?
Date: 23 May 1996 15:27:37 GMT
Organization: Stryder Communications, Inc.
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In article <4msq08$thn@news.abq.bdm.com>,
   rhughes2@bdm.com (Ralph Hughes) wrote:
>In article <4mobg4$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.
>

It does compile under 2.0 through 2.1, you do have to make some modifications, 
however.  I have a fairly simple list of changes that need to be made to the 
software in order to get it to compile properly, if you would like a copy of 
this file, please feel free to e-mail me at the address below.



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