Good Information about ipfw

[W. D.]

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


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