At 21:59 6/1/2004, Martes G Wigglesworth, wrote: >Is there a good, definitive, source of information for implementing ipfw >firewall rules. I am familiar with the man pages, howerver, a list of >arbitrary functionality, without any clue as to how to actually empliment >them is of no use to me. >I am in Mozul, Iraq, and I have limited time on the Internet, and far less >resources than I did before I got activated to come over here. >I would also like to know what the point of most man pages are. 90 percent >of them just list arbitrary commands, as though you are supposed >to know how to use the program in the first place. There are almost never >any useful information about implementing the program that the manpage is >supposed to explain, but does not. > >I have not been able to locate any book on the one firewall, that seems >to be at the heart of any good Freebsd firewall setup. > >Please help this wayward soul. > >Thanks fellow BSDers. > >System: HP Pavilion ze5700 w/ Inetel Celeron 2.8ghz; 256MB ram; 30gig hdd >OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
Here's some info below. Perhaps once you figure it all out, you could write up a "cheatsheet" to help others. http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-ipfw&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-ipfw&w=2&r=1&s=newbie&q=b http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/05/09/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://freebsd.hanirc.org/holyboard/holyboard.cgi?db=ipfw http://www.Google.com/search?q=%22ipfw_rules%22+Richard+Caley http://www.Google.com/search?q=ipfw+firewall+rules http://www.Google.com/search?q=%22ipfw_rules%22 http://www.Google.com/search?q=ipfw+firewall+rules+primer http://dva.dyndns.org/faq.html Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
