Re: Buidling small freebsd router



#1 - FreeBSD handbook. Once you understand FreeBSD, then move on to PF. Don't bother with the other packet filters unless you have a need to be compatible with ipfw/ipf.

#2 - For PF, a lot of the docs are for OpenBSD. This is fine, FreeBSD uses the same PF.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/

#3 - If you need traffic shaping/QoS/etc, ALTQ is what you need.
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html

Have fun!
David

PS - Some books on firewall design might help you out. :) Sounds like you're just going to be doing basic NAT though, which is a ten minute setup if you read the docs!

----- Original Message -----
From: Abimanyu Gottumukkala <abhi151285@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:51 am
Subject: Buidling small freebsd router

Hai friend i want to build small freebsd based router. will u please
suggest any tutorials or books
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