Kolab 2

2005-06-21 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any experiences worth mentioning with Kolab or Kolab 2. I'm not familiar with OpenPKG, and I just wanted to get some feedback on it to see if I want to dive in or not. (If nobody has tried it or has any comments, I'm probably going to give it a shot just f

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:24 am, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I think, that really only questions, whose answers cannot > > readily be found elsewhere, should be asked on this list. > For the most part, yes, only non-readily available answers should be > posted to the list, but there are circumstan

Re: NAT router confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On Thursday 23 June 2005 07:43 pm, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > Is this router really some switch/router hybrid? Or..? Bleh, someone > please sort this out for me. I realize this isn't strictly > FreeBSD-related, but I simply couldn't think of a better place to pick > brains, so I hope I'll be excused :)

Re: NAT router confusion

2005-06-24 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On Friday 24 June 2005 06:25 am, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > Thanks, I think I understand how it works now. I guess it's basically > like an ordinary router that pretends it's a switch for all addresses > that appear on the same local network. It looks at the destination > address in IP packets and the

Re: firewall on freebsd

2005-06-24 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On Friday 24 June 2005 10:59 am, Ean Kingston wrote: > IPF was written for OpenBSD and later ported to FreeBSD. IPF came into > existence because of disagreements between certain members of the OpenBSD > team and the author of IPFilter. Filtering is done in the kernel and I > believe NAT is also in

Re: advise on gateway-setup

2002-10-02 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
> > >Ok. After this little self promo its time for my questions. >The building I live in has 200+ apartments which in near future will >share an (I hope) powerful internet connection. Now I was put in-charge >of selecting the equipment to preform firewalling and gateway. >What I like it to do is f

Re: About rc.firewall

2002-10-15 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
> > >Sorry, I mean is: >What is the relation between firewall_type in /etc/rc.conf and the same >statement; firewall_type in rc.firewall? Is it enough if i only define >the firewall_type just once; In rc.firewall only? > > rc.conf sets some variables, but does not actually set anything up (in