* On 09/08/06 14:01 -0400, beno wrote: | Hi; | I'm updating my firewall and I've found a nifty how-to that recommends | using a BSD box in front of another box as your firewall, using the | first as a router and passing one NIC to the other box. Can't all that | be done from the same box?
Hi Beno, If you don't mind exposing the one box to the hostile Internet, then the answer is yes. Just block everything using the firewall on the same box. What is your concept of a firewall, by the way? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
