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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.dra.com!news.he.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.nacamar.de!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!isar.de!news.muc.ditec.de!tartufo!me From: me@muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as firewall ? Date: 14 Nov 96 14:05:35 GMT Organization: DITEC GmbH Lines: 20 Message-ID: <me.847980335@tartufo> References: <stanbE0o0L6.56C@netcom.com> Reply-To: me@muc.DITEC.de NNTP-Posting-Host: tartufo.muc.ditec.de X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: > Could people give me their opinion of FreeBSD as a firewall. >I need to set up a firewall between the general company wide wan >(which is assumed to not secure) and a control system Ethernet >Lan (which has always before relied on physical security). [...] > I would appreciate hearing peoples opinions, and experiences >on this. Well, we've had nothing but good experiences with FreeBSD. DITEC's firewalls to the outside are FreeBSD exclusively. We're using TIS' firewall toolkit in conjunction with packet filters. Michael -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)