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How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall with IPFILTER

• 1 - basic unix commands
• 2 - basic unix commands
• how to untar/tar
  

These are all topics I need to study - most are from the BSD Diary site above

• basic user account management
• making ports to install or remove programs - also FreeBSDers Porter's Handbook
• firewalls
  • firewall rules
  • firewalls, filtering, ipfw, and FTP clients
  • another good BSD firewall site
• Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95
• Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel)
• log in as a superuser instead of root
• change your pre-login banner
• configuration files
• install a backup script in /etc/periodic
• create a secure directory
• find out about the sbin files (system programs and administration utilities fundamental to oth single-user and multi-user environments) Are any of these user invoked - or are they run through other programs ?

Some useful reminders and tips

DNS servers are specified in /etc/resolv.conf

restart server shutdown -r now
restart apache # /usr/local/sbin/apachectl graceful
use apachectl configtest to check httpd.conf changes before apachectl restart
make / make install
using ddclient to update ip (see ddclient.conf)
flush and reload ipf.rules ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rule

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