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From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as firewall?
Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:45:32 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <572m2d$q0c@helena.MT.net>
References: <mvhE18qqD.3EK@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com

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In article <mvhE18qqD.3EK@netcom.com>, Michael Harding <mvh@netcom.com> wrote:
>I was thinking of proposing that we use a FreeBSD system as out
>internal firewall - anybody have anything good or bad to say?  Is the
>IPFW stuff all rock solid?  The architecture would be
>
>Ext router
>   |
>FreeBSD machine
>   |
>Internal network

I'm doing the above for a client and they depend on it.  It works great,
although I don't have an external router and instead use an internal
Frame Relay card which is essentially doing all the routing for me.

Highly recommended and robust,



Nate
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