Re: Firewall questions

2005-04-01 Thread Ean Kingston
> Only a little note about the comment: > > "On FreeBSD you have a choice of IPFW, IPF, and PF. IPFW is FreeBSD only, > IPF runs on many OSes (but not Linux)," > > Since i have been reading the Ipfilter maillist, you can see that Ipfilter > now > runs on Linux too. This is only information. Greet

Re: Firewall questions

2005-04-01 Thread perikillo
Only a little note about the comment: "On FreeBSD you have a choice of IPFW, IPF, and PF. IPFW is FreeBSD only, IPF runs on many OSes (but not Linux)," Since i have been reading the Ipfilter maillist, you can see that Ipfilter now runs on Linux too. This is only information. Greetings. On Mar

Re: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 09:45:56 PM + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clamav is supposed to be good for filtering windows viruses out of email. I know Fastmail.fm dropped Kaspersky in favour of Clamav, they claimed the updates to be at least as good. We did some pretty thorough testing

Re: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:03, Ean Kingston wrote: > > Also, I am looking for antiviral protection for both > > the FreeBSD server, and any Windows or Macintosh > > systems that may be using the POP mail. I know qmail > > has one solution, which was contributed by a qmail > > user, but what are

RE: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
> http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php > > This install guide covers both of the 2 firewalls that come built in > to FreeBSD for all 4.x release. Software firewalls are heads and > shoulders above hardware firewalls which can not do stateful type of > protection. You might

RE: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread bob
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shawn B Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Firewall questions I have been looking for a great firewall, something not too technical, since I have only been using FreeBSD for two

Re: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Bachelier Vincent
2005 15:47:10 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Firewall questions > > I have been looking for a great firewall, something > not too technical, since I have only been using > FreeBSD for two months now. > > I have FreeBSD-4.8 installed, Apache-1.3, and > Netqmail-1.05. I am also

Re: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
> I have been looking for a great firewall, something > not too technical, since I have only been using > FreeBSD for two months now. > > I have FreeBSD-4.8 installed, Apache-1.3, and > Netqmail-1.05. I am also planning on running an NTP > time server and possibly a forum in the future. The > web

Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Shawn B
I have been looking for a great firewall, something not too technical, since I have only been using FreeBSD for two months now. I have FreeBSD-4.8 installed, Apache-1.3, and Netqmail-1.05. I am also planning on running an NTP time server and possibly a forum in the future. The web site is expecte

Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andy Firman wrote: First, if one were to deploy FreeBSD 5.3 as a standard web and email server, would it need a firewall? I don't see the point because only ports like 25 for smtp, 110 for pop, 80 for http, etc... will be listening and open for connections with or without a firewall. You always sh

Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-29 Thread Thomas Foster
For FreeBSD.. I highly recommend PF http://www.section6.net/help/pf.php Hope this helps T - Original Message - From: "Andy Firman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD First, if one were to deplo

Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-29 Thread Pat Maddox
Having a firewall prevents rogue programs from opening up other ports on your machine. You have to worry about services you don't install and configure just as much (maybe even more so) as the services you do install. On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:50:51 -0900, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-29 Thread albi
Andy Firman wrote: Second, I would like to replace my Linux gateway running Shorewall. Shorewall is a nice package for managing the netfilter firewall capabilities of the Linux kernel. Is there something similar for FreeBSD? personally i don't like Shorewall at all but.. imho m0n0wall rocks : htt

Re: 2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-29 Thread Chris
Andy Firman wrote: First, if one were to deploy FreeBSD 5.3 as a standard web and email server, would it need a firewall? I don't see the point because only ports like 25 for smtp, 110 for pop, 80 for http, etc... will be listening and open for connections with or without a firewall. Second, I wo

2 quick firewall questions for FreBSD

2005-01-29 Thread Andy Firman
First, if one were to deploy FreeBSD 5.3 as a standard web and email server, would it need a firewall? I don't see the point because only ports like 25 for smtp, 110 for pop, 80 for http, etc... will be listening and open for connections with or without a firewall. Second, I would like to replac

Re: ipf firewall questions

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:21:47 -0500, Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using ipf as my firewall, and I can't figure out why OWA is being blocked > going to 172.20.0.11. Below is the current config file which works. But if > I removed the fourth line, my users can't access OWA externa

Re: ipf firewall questions

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:21:47 -0500, Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using ipf as my firewall, and I can't figure out why OWA is being blocked > going to 172.20.0.11. Below is the current config file which works. But if > I removed the fourth line, my users can't access OWA externa

ipf firewall questions

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew Smith
I'm using ipf as my firewall, and I can't figure out why OWA is being blocked going to 172.20.0.11. Below is the current config file which works. But if I removed the fourth line, my users can't access OWA externally. I would have thought the lines: pass out quick from 172.20.0.0/24 to any ke

Firewall questions

2004-03-12 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am still working on the firewall performance issue. What I would like opinion on is, if I install 5.1 on a PII 233, 182MB Ram and configure it as a firewall (IPFilter) with (2) xl nic's, is that better than buying a linksys BEFSX41 router with firewall ? My current Freebsd 4.6 firew

Re: network and firewall questions

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone access your computer by a port if nothing is listening to that > port? Hopefully not. > If not, then if you turn off services that you don't use and need to access > used services remotely (i.e. let them through a firewall), do you ne

network and firewall questions

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm still very much a newbie regarding networking issues and firewalls; so if I need to be slapped, please be gentle. ;-) Most of my home computers are behind a NAT router with very simple firewalls -- let all requests out, allow established in, deny everything else. I put a test computer in

Re: ipfw firewall questions

2003-02-02 Thread Petre Bandac
. > > http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ > > http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Petre > Bandac > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:51 AM > T

RE: ipfw firewall questions

2003-02-02 Thread JoeB
ution forthcoming. http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Petre Bandac Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ipfw firewall ques

Re: ipfw firewall questions

2003-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:50:52AM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: > hello > > I'm about to "compose" my first ipfw firewall - and, since I have worked quite > a lot with iptables, I'm interesed in a few minor similarities: > > 1 - the firewall is called by rc.conf ? or ca I call it at boot time via

ipfw firewall questions

2003-02-02 Thread Petre Bandac
hello I'm about to "compose" my first ipfw firewall - and, since I have worked quite a lot with iptables, I'm interesed in a few minor similarities: 1 - the firewall is called by rc.conf ? or ca I call it at boot time via whatever *.sh placed in the right place 2 - the firewall can be a execu

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-11-02 Thread Leigh
Check out my IPFilter/IPNAT setup script for FreeBSD, it might be just what you are after http://www.roq.com/bsd/ - Original Message - From: "RD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:08 AM Subj

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-11-01 Thread Kristian Larsson
> Hi! > > > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: > > > > > > How do I connect this? Do I use 2 eithernets 1 to net and 1 to a hub? > > > If your ethernet card has two types of connectors (RJ45 aka UTP and > > BNC [which is a thing that sticks out of the card]) then you could try > > to connect the ads

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-11-01 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: > > > > How do I connect this? Do I use 2 eithernets 1 to net and 1 to a hub? > If your ethernet card has two types of connectors (RJ45 aka UTP and > BNC [which is a thing that sticks out of the card]) then you could try > to connect the adsl-modem to the

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, at 17:28 [=GMT-0700], Nick Rogness wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: > > How do I connect this? Do I use 2 eithernets 1 to net and 1 to a hub? I > > also have 1 crossover rj45 cable for card to card connection that I > > haven't tried yet... > > Yes, 2 ethernet ca

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread Kristian Larsson
l Message - From: "RD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions > Hi guys, me again :) > well I've been reading up on compiling a kernel for na

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread Nick Rogness
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: > Hi guys, me again :) > well I've been reading up on compiling a kernel for nat and ipfw. > I'm running a d-link 704 router now. I want some input here... > > I have an extra box (p200 - 128ram) for a router firewall.. I was > thinking about it being my Gateway/

Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread Shawn Henderson
small routers anything above is a good test platform for new projects I want to learn - Original Message - From: "RD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Ques

RE: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> Hi guys, me again :) > well I've been reading up on compiling a kernel for nat and > ipfw. I'm running a d-link 704 router now. I want some input here... > > I have an extra box (p200 - 128ram) for a router firewall.. > I was thinking about it being my Gateway/Router/Firewall for > my oth

FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions

2002-10-31 Thread RD
Hi guys, me again :) well I've been reading up on compiling a kernel for nat and ipfw. I'm running a d-link 704 router now. I want some input here... I have an extra box (p200 - 128ram) for a router firewall.. I was thinking about it being my Gateway/Router/Firewall for my other 3 computers.