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OpenBSD as router?
Post 21628 by auswipe on Monday 20th of May 2002 04:10:42 PM
05-20-2002
I have a LinkSys router, but right now I am only using it to provide NAT functionality. Right now, all my traffic from the LinkSys is sent from the LinkSys to my OpenBSD box acting as firewall/proxy server.
I also run natd on the OpenBSD machine to route traffic to my FreeBSD mailserver behind the OpenBSD box.
I prefer the OpenBSD box as it gives me fine grain control of what I let in/out/monitor. I am using OpenBSD 2.9 with two 3Com905 NICs and it works just fine.
I still use ZoneAlarm on my Win32 machines so that I can control what apps try to contact the outside world. ZoneAlarm is great!
There are a large number of tutorials on how to setup an OpenBSD box as a router.
Here is one such article that is well written:
http://mlowe.phpwebhosting.com/pages...e=openbsd.html
It's a little overkill for a home situation, but it keeps me entertained for hours on end. My wife just doesn't understand why it is cool that we have a mail server in the house. She just looks at me and smiles.
I also run natd on the OpenBSD machine to route traffic to my FreeBSD mailserver behind the OpenBSD box.
I prefer the OpenBSD box as it gives me fine grain control of what I let in/out/monitor. I am using OpenBSD 2.9 with two 3Com905 NICs and it works just fine.
I still use ZoneAlarm on my Win32 machines so that I can control what apps try to contact the outside world. ZoneAlarm is great!
There are a large number of tutorials on how to setup an OpenBSD box as a router.
Here is one such article that is well written:
http://mlowe.phpwebhosting.com/pages...e=openbsd.html
It's a little overkill for a home situation, but it keeps me entertained for hours on end. My wife just doesn't understand why it is cool that we have a mail server in the house. She just looks at me and smiles.
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age
AGE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AGE(4) NAME
age -- Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device SYNOPSIS
age* at pci? atphy* at mii? DESCRIPTION
The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset. The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping. The following media types are supported: autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 10baseT Set 10Mbps operation. 100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 1000baseT Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try ifconfig <device> media. For example, ifconfig age0 media. SEE ALSO
arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1. AUTHORS
The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>. BSD
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