The original question was about the alternatives available to use a
BSDI box as a bridging router. The answers received, mentioned the
following solutions:
screend: Many experiences (mainly satisfactory) with the
software. Reported performance is that a 486 @
33Mhz can pump about
5Mb/s and a Pentium about 9Mb/s. Good enough to handle a site with a
64Kbit/s.
ip_firewall: Consists of kernel patches (no source license required)
and a couple of source files. It's reported to be shareware. It's
author is danny @
nahanni .
BouletFermat .
ab .
ca .
The program is available
at the following sites:
ftp://ftp.nebulus.net/pub/bsdi/security/ipfirewall_v2.0a.gz
ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/contrib/networking/security/ipfirewall_v2.0a.shar.gz
TIS fwtk: A good choice, though not suitable for our application.
ip_gw: Some screend lookalike. No information provided about this
software.
ALF: A commercial package that can convert a BSDI box in a
full-fledged screening router/packet filter. Contact information
follows:
Ari Shamash
SOS corporation voice 1-800-SOS-UNIX or 1-212-686-5700
461 5th Avenue, 16th floor fax: 1-212-686-5703
New York, NY 10017 email: ari @
soscorp .
com
ip_fil: A loadable kernel module that implements packet filtering with
NetBSD. It's reported to work like a charm. This package is available
at:
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au:/pub/net/kernel/ip_fil2.5.2.tar.gz
Many thanks to:
Scott Barman <scott @
Disclosure .
COM>
mht @
shore .
net (Mark Teicher)
Danny Boulet <danny @
nahanni .
BouletFermat .
ab .
ca>
David Maynard <dpm @
flametree .
com>
"Jim.Shaw" <Jim .
Shaw @
actrix .
gen .
nz>
"Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny @
www .
unimelb .
EDU .
AU>
ari @
soscorp .
com (Ari Shamash)
Darren Reed <avalon @
coombs .
anu .
edu .
au>
Bob Beck <beck @
cs .
ualberta .
ca>
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