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From: Dirk.Nerling@pdv.de (Dirk Nerling)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as firewall?
Date: 25 Nov 1996 12:35:59 GMT
Organization: PDV-Systeme Erfurt, Germany
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In article <mvhE18qqD.3EK@netcom.com>, mvh@netcom.com says...
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>where the FreeBSD machine would use ipfw and proxies, and would have
>our web site on it.

Thats what I do - and it's working, working, working ... wonderfull
stable and robust. (Did you tried a ping -l 65510 for FreeBSD
and for HP-UX, or DUX ;-) ?) perhaps you should also have a look
at the TIS Firewall Tollkit, so you could easily manage telnet,
ftp news and _any_port_proxies. As Webserver for the world (and 
also as cache and proxy server for my users) I run the CERN. 

Perhaps you could use IP addresses according to RFC 1597 for
your internal network and I'm shure you will have a sound slepper. 


so long Dirk
 
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Dirk Nerling            http://www.pdv.de/~nerle