FreeBSD Firewall Setup Using IPFW for Enhanced Security

Have you heard about IPfirewall? One service that should be protected by a firewall is a web server. "You do not need to compile IPFW into the FreeBSD kernel unless you want NAT function enabled. " So it's not very hard to set up a FreeBSD firewall and with this articles user's should have a more secure operating system.

Ipfirewall (ipfw) is a FreeBSD IP packet filter and traffic accounting facility. IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. The system will dynamically load the kernel module when the rc.conf statement firewall_enable=

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