sortof OT firewalls

[Jason Stephenson]

I use an old PC running OpenBSD 2.7, IPF and IPNAT. It wasn't exactly 
quick to set up the first time, but after that, it works great.

Some hints: You'll want two nics in the machine and a hub doesn't hurt 
either. This is really a better set up for someone who has more than 1 
machine behind the firewall. (I have 4, not counting the firewall 
machine itself.) You'll also want to update your firewall system as soon 
as it is installed. There's a security fix for the version of IPF that 
shipped with OpenBSD 2.7.

The above should work with cable, DSL, or other broadband connection. If 
you get a real modem, it should even work as a dial on demand server, 
but I've never set one of those up.

Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> 
> I've met some who is a windows user with a cable modem.  Can anyone recommend 
> any defensive software she can use ?  Open source is obviously preffered,
> Thanks
> TomR
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