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| − | A '''firewall''' is a software application that runs on a Freebsd system acting as a gateway to the public internet that examines the traffic wanting to pass through it making decisions about whether to allow, deny, log, NAT, and/or otherwise fiddle with the traffic on a packet-by-packet basis by consulting a ruleset it's been programmed with.
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| − | The main purpose of firewalls is to protect an internal network from malicious traffic inbound from public networks. They can monitor and/or control both inbound and outbound traffic. In particular, in work related environments it can be useful to deny outbound traffic on ports used for non-work-related peer-to-peer file-sharing networks; and to deny and log outbound traffic that is characteristic of malware-related activity.
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| − | FreeBSD has three firewall soultions available, they are; [ipfw] (FreeBSD-maintained), [pf] (OpenBSD-originated, ported to FreeBSD), and [ipf] (OS-agnostic, ipfilter ported to FreeBSD).
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| − | [[Category:Securing FreeBSD]]
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