Fwd: Re: [techtalk] My bad NT day

[Conor Daly]

I asked a colleague of mine who is/was using a FreeBSD box as firewall for
comments.  Here's what he said...

Conor
----- Forwarded message from Steffen Higel -----

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:42:52PM +0100, Conor Daly articulated:
> 
> Did you get your FreeBSD firewall set up?  Would you care to contribute
> your thoughts to the above?

I did indeed get it up and running, with NAT and firewalling. At present,
the machine is sitting gathering dust as my Alpha can only run GNU/Linux,
and it is handling dial up and security duties. (blasphemous that such a
powerful machine is doing that and seti, but hey...)

OpenBSD firewalling from what I can tell isn't too different. It uses the
familiar ipfw to add rules. I think it uses the same ppp as FreeBSD, which
handles NAT itself. If you are connected to the internet using anything
other than a ppp connection, you should use natd to handle what GNU/Linux
people know as ipmasqing.

I'd say go for it,(Free|Open)BSD are as if not more capable than GNU/Linux
in a majority of circumstances. There are a few differences here and there
from the sysadmins perspective, but overall it is a pleasurable
experience.

Hope that helps, any questions, fire 'em my way.

-- 
Steffen Higel

----- End forwarded message -----

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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