firewall on FreeBSD

[Nikolas Britton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Khanh Cao
> Van
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 9:33 AM
> To: freebsd-questions
> Subject: firewall on freebsd
> 
> 
> I'm going to learn about the freebsd firewall . In the handbook list
> some of them and I could not find out what is the best . So I
> decided
> to post here hoping to gain some of your opinion and experience .
> I would like to know what firewall was the most wanted ? I have used
> Linux several months and IP tables was a good statefull firewall .
> What about in freeBSD ?

FreeBSD has m0n0wall and it just works. For example, yesterday I setup
a site to site VPN using two m0n0wall boxes and it took me less then 5
minutes to reconfigure, in production use systems, the boxes to do it.
I think I spent more time trying to generate a suitable 3DES shared
key then it did to reconfigure the boxes