Re: [PLUG] Firewall choices for a small software development business

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 07:30:31 -0400
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:40:05PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> > This e-mail is to solicit opinions about a firewall.   
> 
> You really can't do better than OpenBSD/pf.  Runs beautifully even
> on minimal hardware, has every feature of relevance, quite resilient
> even in the face of clueful attack, very customizable, open-source,
> peer-reviewed, and exhaustively documented.

The preceding is true, but OpenBSD/pf is very terse and not
recognizeably a match for what you're trying to pass or stop.

Do you know of any online documentation that outlines which commands do
what and in what order, without drowning the whole thing in a
mind-numbing sea of detail?

Thanks,
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
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