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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: FreeBSD as firewall?
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I was thinking of proposing that we use a FreeBSD system as out
internal firewall - anybody have anything good or bad to say?  Is the
IPFW stuff all rock solid?  The architecture would be

Ext router
   |
FreeBSD machine
   |
Internal network

where the FreeBSD machine would use ipfw and proxies, and would have
our web site on it.

Any comments?

Thanks,
Mike