What exactly is ipfilter?

2003-12-04 Thread Emmanuel Gravel
I'm looking through rc.conf and the kernel config file for FreeBSD 4.9 (recently downloaded it, my last upgrade was 4.5 so I was way behind, and this is a new install because my old firewall died). I'm used to using ipfw and natd for my firewall, but now I'm seeing ipfilter, ipnat and ipmon. I've d

Getting "rid" of sendmail

2004-01-06 Thread Emmanuel Gravel
I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA from a box and forward everything to another host. I've found the /etc/mail/aliases file and saw that I could configure it so that root would point to something else, so that's half the battle, possibly. Once that's done, however, is it simply a matte

Setting up FreeBSD as a wireless base station

2003-02-19 Thread Emmanuel Gravel
I was looking into setting up a wireless network at home. I'm already using FreeBSD 4.4 as my gateway/firewall (NATD/ipfw/junkbuster) for my wired network. I was initially looking at a Cisco 350 as an access point and Orinoco cards for the laptops/desktops that don't have wired access, mostly becau

Wireless network design

2003-02-21 Thread Emmanuel Gravel
I know someone who was able to accomplish something interesting using Orinoco cards, a Cisco 350 AP, and a RADIUS server in the network. When a laptop attempts to connect to the network through the wireless card, the RADIUS server authenticates the network credetials and then passes a wep key using