Re: best firewall option for FreeBSD

From: Victor Tayer (Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com)
Date: 02/27/02 

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:29:13 +0800
From: Victor Tayer <Victor.Tayer@morganstanley.com>
To: Geert Houben <sec@hict.nl>

you would want to use freebsd for the OS and qmail or postfix for the mta
and ipfw/ipfilter for the firewall package

jett tayer

Geert Houben wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have to build a firewall for our University with 2 NIC's. One
> connected to internet and the second connected to the network.
> The e-mail is running on M$ Exchange, but this servers are placed
> outside of the network.
> With the firewall we would like to increase the security, but also make
> it impossible for internal users to use anything else but http, https,
> ssh, ftp-client,pop3-client, Outlook. So it has to be impossible to use
> Morpheus, Kazaa, Napster etc.
>
> What firewall software (Opensource) would you advice? Or do I have to
> choose another OS?
>
> Best regards,
> Geert Houben
>
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