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#! rnews 1873 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Chris <harshman@paradigm.uor.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free firewall? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 04:00:34 -0600 Organization: Netcom Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33082C42.2FB7FB7E@paradigm.uor.edu> References: <330333EF.48C8@usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sbo-ca1-14.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Feb 17 3:51:20 AM CST 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) To: myorke@usa.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158877 comp.os.linux.networking:68659 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35625 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. Check the 'Firewall' HOWTO for Linux, at http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/#ldp A good friend of mine, Dave Rudder (drig@novitacom.com) wrote the original; I don't know who's maintaining it now, but I found Dave's work on the subject invaluable. -- We come to bury DOS, not to praise it.