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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as firewall? Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:45:32 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 27 Message-ID: <572m2d$q0c@helena.MT.net> References: <mvhE18qqD.3EK@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com [ Emailed to poster as well ] In article <mvhE18qqD.3EK@netcom.com>, Michael Harding <mvh@netcom.com> wrote: >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 I'm doing the above for a client and they depend on it. It works great, although I don't have an external router and instead use an internal Frame Relay card which is essentially doing all the routing for me. Highly recommended and robust, Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!