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FreeBSD Setting up Firewall using IPFW

Ipfirewall (ipfw) is a FreeBSD IP packet filter and traffic accounting facility.
IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. The system will dynamically load the kernel module when the rc.conf statement firewall_enable=”YES” is used. read more

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