Firewall for FreeBSD

Discussion in 'Security' started by faraday911, Oct 22, 2006.

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    Can you please recommend me a good firewall to install on FreeBSD. I have a local network that accesses Internet via proxy, I would like to protect the server from external access attempts first of all
     
    faraday911, Oct 22, 2006 IP
  2. recursive

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    FreeBSD comes with two optional firewall forms on default.
    You can choose between the IPFW and the IPFILTER.
    There are steps needed in order to activate them, but there is alot of good documentation on the net.
    Find out what form suites you best.

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html
     
    recursive, Oct 24, 2006 IP
  3. hadrick

    hadrick Banned

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    both the ipfw and ipfilter are used to filtering the Ip accessing the server. Its a small filtering service same like the iptables in linux. I would recommend APF to use for any unix server system for quality firewall service.

    http://www.rfxnetwork.ca

    Its a small but quite advance firewall, surely better then iptables or ipfilter.

    Best Regards
     
    hadrick, Oct 24, 2006 IP
  4. tunedtv

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    APF is just a tool to easily setup iptables or IPF.

    IPF is all you need, trust me.
     
    tunedtv, Oct 25, 2006 IP