From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 20: 3:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tigger.nu.org (whiz4.zip.com.au [61.8.19.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7663214E9B for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vance@nu.org) Received: by tigger.nu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7269016F9; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:03:36 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:03:36 +1000 From: Christopher Vance To: ipfilter@cairo.anu.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD ipfw vs. ipfilter Message-ID: <19991006130336.E87124@nu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ipfw is part of FreeBSD by default. ipf[ilter] is available for FreeBSD and a number of other OSs. I use FreeBSD at home, have used it at work, but also co-administer a Solaris 2.7 SPARC on a different continent. Both machines need to be isolated to some extent from their ISP, because I don't trust them (or their ISPs) to know what they're doing. Currently I'm using ipf (for the last six months?) on FreeBSD because I wanted to check it out before installing it on the Solaris machine, since I have no console access to recover from any medium-to-big blunder. Previously I used ipfw for over a year. I wonder if either list could give me some objective recommendations for the future. (I trust that invective has no place here...) -- Christopher Vance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message