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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!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news-out.communique.net!mr.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!pagesat.net!news.qnet.com!usenet From: Duane Ellison <duane@qnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free firewall? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:48:53 -0800 Organization: Quantum Networking Solutions; USA; info@qnet.com Lines: 49 Message-ID: <33053225.167EB0E7@qnet.com> References: <330333EF.48C8@usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lanc00-24.ca.qnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) To: myorke@usa.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158156 comp.os.linux.networking:68334 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35415 Hello, I do not have a lot of information on Firewalls and it looks like everyone else is putting in their .02 worth. But it looks like no one has answered your reference question. Anyway O'Reilly & Associates have a book called "Building Internet Firewalls". They have really good UNIX books and I have quite a large collection of them myself. The ora web site can be found at http://www.ora.com/catalog/fire/ A good place to purchase the book, if you decide to buy is: http://www.bookpool.com/ Since you are looking into Firewalls I would image that Computer Security is also an issue. If this is the case then I would also recommend "Practical UNIX & Internet Security". http://www.ora.com/catalog/puis/noframes.html Good luck! Duane... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Duane's Reloading Site http://www.av.qnet.com/~duane/index.html duane@qnet.com Mike Yorke wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking into setting up a firewall for our network since we'll be > getting a dedicated connection to the Internet. Since my company is a > non-profit organization, we don't want to sink $10-$20K into something. > Is there any "free" firewall software out there that would run under > FreeBSD or Linux? And if so, does the "you get what you pay for" factor > weigh heavily with this free firewall? Also, can you point me towards > any good references on UNIX-based firewalls? I'd like to learn more > about this subject. > > Thanks in advance! > > Mike