From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 27 22:46:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB16437B41B for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:46:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarmap.nospam.schulte.org (tarmap.schulte.org [209.134.156.198]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D7124424; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:46:43 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020328004006.040094d0@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:46:38 -0600 To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au, FreeBSD-Security@freebsd.org From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: pf OR ipf ? In-Reply-To: <20020328165033.S76574-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:51 PM 3/28/2002 +1030, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: >Is it possible to use OpenBSD's pf (Packet Filter - Firewall) with FreeBSD ? >Or shall I use IPF ? Nope. Use IPF or IPFW with FreeBSD. There was a long thread on this topic on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc in Feb 2002. Probably elsewhere too. In a nutshell, OpenBSD's PF only exists because of licensing issues with IPF. No such problems exist on FreeBSD, so PF is not really needed. Thus, I don't think there's any compelling reason to port it to FreeBSD. > - Alex -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message