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Firewalls/Gateways	NAT
IP Filter	System upgrades


Firewalls/Gateways
	natd Network Address Translation (IP masquerading, IP aliasing) 21 Jun 1998 Firewalls, filtering, ipfw, and FTP clients 11 Jul 1998 Firewalls / ipfw - protect your subnet 20 Oct 1998 IP Filter - an alternative firewall and NAT to ipfw/natd 23 Oct 1998 Firewall rules - some more work 23 Oct 1998 Firewalls - converting from IP filter to natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Gateways - installing natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Firewalls - an overview 29 Oct 1998 IP Filter - second time around 4 Nov 1998 fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 make - and how to use it behind a firewall 13 Jan 1999 IP Filter won't load - what I did when IP Filter didn't load 19 Jan 1999 using sysctl to monitor connections * 24 Jan 1999 I was probed! The security worked. 2 Feb 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.3 23 Nov 1999 A good start for a gateway box 23 Nov 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.4 4 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.5 - a patch for ipmon 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter - using rule groups for blocking IP blocks 27 Dec 1999 Letting people know the web server is off line 11 May 2000 Purging ipf from FreeBSD 10 Jun 2000 Everything got owned 27 Nov 2006


IP Filter
	IP Filter - an alternative firewall and NAT to ipfw/natd 23 Oct 1998 Firewall rules - some more work 23 Oct 1998 Firewalls - converting from IP filter to natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Firewalls - an overview 29 Oct 1998 IP Filter - second time around 4 Nov 1998 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 IP Filter won't load - what I did when IP Filter didn't load 19 Jan 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.3 23 Nov 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.4 4 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.5 - a patch for ipmon 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter - using rule groups for blocking IP blocks 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.8 released 1 Feb 2000 Installing IP Filter 3.4.1 9 May 2000 Letting people know the web server is off line 11 May 2000 Purging ipf from FreeBSD 10 Jun 2000 nfs and ipf with IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK 24 Nov 2000 new ipfilter option is really cool! 13 Mar 2001


NAT
	natd Network Address Translation (IP masquerading, IP aliasing) 21 Jun 1998 The DNS problem which was an natd problem 10 Jul 1998 Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel) 29 Aug 1998 getting natd to run again 29 Aug 1998 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 Getting DCC to work with natd 31 Jan 1999 ADSL - changing the modem 10 Mar 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999


System upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999 /etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005