Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:18:46 -0400 From: "Maine LOA List Admin (Brent Bailey)" <brentb@loa.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <003601c15328$db264480$24b4a8c0@pretorian> References: <20011012154307.O52936-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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I tried IPFILTER for awhile ...and it very easy to use...but ..in my opinion it isnt as configurable as IPFW. IPFW is a little more to setup ...but still pretty easy ...and the syntax isnt that hard to understand. Its best feature is its VERY configurable...and as long as you keep logging to a minimum ...it doesnt use alot of resources. Seems its memeory intensive than anything ...running a firewall that is Brent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: IPFW or IPFILTER? > Hello. > > Please do not understand this question as a question of what I believ in, > it is simply a question of what to use for best performance. > > FreeBSD uses two filtering systems, ipfw and ipfilter and each of these > both systems has its own adavantages and disadvantages. ipfilter seems to > be more sophisticated in how to write rules. > At the moment, we use ipfw around here due to the easy rule syntax. But > that is not that what should be the main argument. I want to ask for the > performance, mean the throughput/bandwith. Does anyone know something > about the bandwith of both filters? What are the pro and contras? > > Thanks, > Oliver > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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