--As of April 25, 2011 7:43:33 PM -0500, Antonio Olivares is alleged to
have said:
I don't know which one to use, is there a page, howto (build a
firewall or convert an existing one) to use here? All I want is to be
allowed to visit websites but don't allow anyone out there to come in
somehow a template that I can use and try out to see if I can get it
working. Of course the network name might be different, but I can try
to figure things out.
If all you want is a firewall, I'd go with this:
<http://www.pfsense.org/>
Based on FreeBSD, but they've set it up nice and put an easy-to-use
interface on top of it.
Of course if you wanted you could always just install the base system, turn
on routing, and configure pf/iptables. There's not really a whole lot to
either one, really... But if you don't feel like learning their syntax
right now, or doing everything via a text editor, I'd really go with
pfsense. (Even if you *do* know their syntax, in most cases I'd go with
pfsense...)
After figuring this out, my next big job/task is to use FreeBSD to
make up a new router/dhcp server to give/assign ip numbers to machines
from one and give to many. This has been something hard that I have
failed at several times. Maybe with FreeBSD I can be successfull?
pfsense has a DHCP server, no problem there.
Daniel T. Staal
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