IPF

[AndrewM]

OK. Here is version 2.0:
http://www.akasoftware.net/ipf.txt

If you have any comments of suggestions, please send them to me.

Thank You
Andrew Morritt

jonathan michaels wrote:

>andrew,
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>On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:34:50AM -0500, AndrewM wrote:
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>>I have written a section for the handbook about sing IPF as a firewall, 
>>as opposed to IPFW. It is located at 
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>>http://hp-h.us/b/akasoftware/ipf.txt.
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>my browser had serious problems with this address (url), it kept
>complaining about 'bad gateway', stuff like that. i ended up searching
>with google for 'akasoftware' and that lead me to an acccessible url
>(www.akasoftware.net, from memory) and the document in question.
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>>If anyone could give me any comments about it that would be great.
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>given that i'm new to firewalls in freebsd (anywhere really) i read
>with enthusiasm .. it is as you state a simple introduction and that is
>not to be putdown. i discovered a few glitches with my thinking about
>how to convert from ipfw to ipf ... i need something a bit more
>language like, with the ability to 'capture' situations rather than the
>simple ability to look, capture and organise data streams .. etcetcetc.
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>a good starting point, andrew, add some scripts to do some basic system
>setup and perhaps a basic maintenance section (setting up teh firewall,
>some tools etcetcetc.)
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>with regards and much appreciations.
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>jonathan 
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