Re: Optimal Home/Office Firewall Solution

From: Ash (ashcrow@phreaker.net)
Date: 07/13/02 

From: Ash <ashcrow@phreaker.net>
To: "Britt A. Green" <bugtraq@experimentzero.org>
Date: 13 Jul 2002 16:35:53 -0500

> In other words, OpenBSD would probably be superior, but is it worth using
> while I climb the steep learning curve?

Warning, this is an opinion! :-)

I think that it would be best to set up a Unix firewall and playwith it
before implementing it on your home network. You could experiment with
it and play around a bit before attempting to use it in production. This
way you wouldn't be totally lost when trying to get it to work.

PF is pretty simple. Here are some good links on it:

Design and Performance of the OpenBSD Stateful Packet Filter - Daniel
Hartmeier
http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf-paper.html

The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO
http://www.inebriated.demon.nl/pf-howto/

The OpenBSD PF Manpage
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Cheers,
Ash 

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Darkfire Secure Linux -- http://www.gnulinux.net

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