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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: firewall with pc on freeBSD? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:31:00 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31C22064.4623@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4phavn$97c@rc1.vub.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MUNIZ LUIS wrote: > > I'm willing to setup three PC's on an ethernet network > that will access internet via a 4th PC which will > do the routing on freebsd and will be connected > with a ISDN connection to our server's cisco. > I have a few questions: > * will i have to modify the freebsd sources in order > to make a billing of the TCP/IP traffic? > * can i easily setup a firewall? > * is there any freeware/shareware software which > already performs this sort of tasks? > * How powerful has this pc to be (the router)? > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thank you. > Check out ipfw(8) . It includes both control and accounting facilities, and should at least get you started. Ken