home multipurpose gateway/router/server setup help

[Moisa Teodor]

wow, that's exactly what i need.
i owe you a lot of beers.
thanks a lot.

On 4/2/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen <peter at bsdly.net> wrote:
>
> "Moisa Teodor" <moisadoru at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I read somewhere that i need to recompile
> > the kernel and enable packet filtering and firewall (the tutorial i used
> is
> > located here http://www.lugbe.ch/lostfound/contrib/freebsd_router/).
>
> That article describes FreeBSD 5.1, which probably means it's a couple
> of years old at least.  Also, it describes IPFW, which is a bit more
> cumbersome to config than PF.  Unless I'm terribly mistaken, running
> PF on recent FreeBSDs does not require a kernel recompile.
>
> My suggestion is that if you want to run PF on your FreeBSD box,
> you're better off browsing http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/, and you'll
> figure out rather easily what you need to do. (Yes, that's a tutorial
> I wrote and update occasionally).
>
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