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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is This Possible with FreeBSD ? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:19:20 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3121B728.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4fgkrv$l67@lard.ftp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Shishir Belbase <shishpop@ftp.com> Shishir Belbase wrote: > I would appreciate experts' answer on this. I am not sure if > the following is possible with FreeBSD: > [ascii art elided] Sure! Should work fine, whether your connection to the Internet is a ppp link running through a tunnel or another ethernet card. > Thank you in advance. Also, any recommendations for the > firewall( socks, fwtk, etc.) ? These are all fine options, each with their own strengths and weaknesses (though people seem to say pretty good things all around about fwtk). If I might ask, however, what's wrong with using the kernel firewall filter mechanism (ipfw)? -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project